Chicago · Licensed center
Rainforest Learning Center
At a glance
- Medium center, licensed for 71 children.
What to know
The license is the range the state allows. It does not say which ages have openings.
What the state has found
The state cited rules at both of its licensing inspections since January 2025.
See each inspection
Licensing inspections
Jan 12, 20261 citation
Background Checks for Personnel
Background Checks for Personnel
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.110
Jan 22, 20252 citations
Background Checks for Personnel
Background Checks for Personnel
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.110
Equipment and Materials
Equipment and Materials
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.380(k)
The state cited rules at both of this center's 2 inspections. Most Chicago-area centers inspected twice had the same: 60% of 83.
How all 83 Chicago-area centers inspected twice compare
Of the 83 Chicago-area centers the state inspected twice, how many of those inspections cited a rule:
- None13%
- 1 of 227%
- Both60%This center
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- January 12, 2026
- On file
- 2 visits since January 2025 — both cited findings
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was February 11, 2026. 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.
Jan 2026 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · January 12, 2026
Background Checks for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.110 · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 621215 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Jan 2025 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · January 22, 2025
Background Checks for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.110 · Violation substantiated
Equipment and Materials
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.380(k) · Violation substantiated
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 621215 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- (312) 493-3889
- Address
- 4725 N Western Ave, Chicago, 60625
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State record
From Illinois DCFS’s published reports, last checked November 8, 2026.
Details
- Phone, Address, License — Checked July 2026 sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov/…/ProviderLookup.aspx. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "RAINFOREST LEARNING CENTER" under Provider Name and 60625 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 621215).
- Ages on the license — Checked November 2026 sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov/…/ProviderLookup.aspx. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "RAINFOREST LEARNING CENTER" under Provider Name and 60625 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 621215).
Medium means the middle half of Chicago-area’s 1,948 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 49 to 118 children. Small is 8 to 48; large is 119 to 487.
The ages on the license are what the state licenses it to care for, which can be wider than the ages it takes.