Chicago · Licensed center
Raindrop Early Learning Center
- Small center, licensed for 41 children.
What these mean, and where they come from
Small means the smallest quarter of Chicago-area’s 1,949 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 8 to 48 children. Medium is 49 to 118; large is 119 to 487.
Who cares for your child
Ratio not published
Mrs. Williams (Owner / Executive Director) since 2013 and Ms. Taylor (Center Director) since 2018.
Of 5,346 Chicago-area providers, 27 publish how long a named staff member has been there; the longest tenure at each of those has a median of sixteen years.
Shortlist doesn’t have these yet: cost, teaching approach.
What the state has found
Routine visits: 2 of 5 cited something
Chicago-area centers: the state cites something at about 5 in 6 routine visits.
From Illinois DCFS’s published reports, last checked September 25, 2026.
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State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- January 26, 2026
- On file
- 5 visits since May 2022 — 3 cited nothing
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was June 14, 2023. Illinois DCFS does not publish whether it was made.
- Most serious
- Illinois DCFS does not publish a severity level for a citation, so there is no most-serious to name.
Illinois DCFS cites each subsection of a rule separately, so one audit of a filing cabinet can produce ten citations. It publishes the rule’s title and a correction deadline, but no description of what was observed.
May 2023 Monitoring visit 4 findings
Monitoring visit · May 15, 2023
Personnel Records
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(2) through (c) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(2) · 407.120(c)
Background Checks for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.110 · Violation corrected
Health Requirements for Children
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(h) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 575771 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
May 2022 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · May 13, 2022
Special Requirements for Infants and Toddlers
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.210(b) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 575771 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
How the comparison is built
Routine visits: across Chicago-area centers, the state cites something at about 5 in 6 routine visits (19,088 visits).
A day here
- Meals
- Breakfast, lunch, and an afternoon snack served daily
- Updates for parents
- Brightwheel parent portal (lesson plans, calendars, sign-in/out, payments)
- Hours
- 7:00 AM to 5:30 PM, 5 days a week, year round
Policies
- When a child is sick
- Children/staff with major symptoms of illness may not remain at the daycare until no longer contagious
Details
- Website
- raindropelc.org
- Address
- 2050 E 93rd St
- License
- pending renewal application (rn)
- Ages they serve
- 6 weeks to 12 years
- Established
- 2013
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Who cares for your child
- Staff raindropelc.org
State record
Every state visit and complaint on file, shown in full and never edited. Open a date to read what the state wrote.
A day here
- Meals, Updates for parents — Checked August 2026 raindropelc.org
- Hours — Checked August 2026 raindropelc.org
- Calendar — Checked August 2026 raindropelc.org
Policies
- When a child is sick — Checked August 2026 raindropelc.org
Details
- Phone, Address, License — Checked July 2026 sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "RAINDROP EARLY LEARNING CENTER" under Provider Name and 60617 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 575771).
- Website — Checked August 2026 raindropelc.org
- Ages they serve — Checked August 2026 raindropelc.org
- Established — Checked August 2026 raindropelc.org