Braidwood · Licensed center
Reed-Custer Early Learning Center
At a glance
- Small center, licensed for 28 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 1 of its 4 licensing inspections since January 2023.
See each inspection
Licensing inspections
- Oct 1, 2025Nothing cited
- Dec 9, 2024Nothing cited
- Oct 27, 2023Nothing cited
Jan 9, 20233 citations
Personnel Records
Personnel Records
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(3)
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(i)(4)(a)
Daily Arrival and Departure of Children
Daily Arrival and Departure of Children
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.260(d)
The state cited rules at 1 of this center's 4 inspections. Most Chicago-area centers inspected 4 times had more: 94% of 117 had rules cited at 2 or more.
How all 117 Chicago-area centers inspected 4 times compare
Of the 117 Chicago-area centers the state inspected 4 times, how many of those inspections cited a rule:
- None2%
- 1 of 44%This center
- 2 of 413%
- 3 of 422%
- All 459%
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- October 1, 2025
- On file
- 4 visits since January 2023 — 3 cited nothing
- Fixed?
- Correction was due January 30, 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.
Jan 2023 Monitoring visit 3 findings
Monitoring visit · January 9, 2023
Personnel Records
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(3) · Violation corrected
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(i)(4)(a) · Violation corrected
Daily Arrival and Departure of Children
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.260(d) · Violation corrected on site
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 613846 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- (815) 458-2307
- Address
- 255 S Comet Dr, Braidwood, 60408
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State record
From Illinois DCFS’s published reports, last checked November 8, 2026.
Details
- Phone, Address, License — Checked August 2026 sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov/…/ProviderLookup.aspx. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "REED-CUSTER EARLY LEARNING CENTER" under Provider Name and 60408 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 613846).
- 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 "REED-CUSTER EARLY LEARNING CENTER" under Provider Name and 60408 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 613846).
Small means the smallest quarter of Chicago-area’s 1,948 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 8 to 48 children. Medium is 49 to 118; 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.