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Melrose Park · Licensed center

Rla Learning Center

At a glance

  • Medium center, licensed for 106 children.

What to know

License: 6 weeks to 5 years (state).

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 2 of its 3 licensing inspections since September 2021.

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Licensing inspections

  • Sep 23, 20261 citation
    • Personnel Records
      • Personnel Records

        89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(4)

  • Sep 2, 2022Nothing cited
  • Sep 15, 20211 citation
    • Special Requirements for Infants and Toddlers
      • Special Requirements for Infants and Toddlers

        89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.210(b)

The state cited rules at 2 of this center's 3 inspections. Most Chicago-area centers inspected 3 times had more: 57% of 110 had rules cited at all 3.

How all 110 Chicago-area centers inspected 3 times compare

Of the 110 Chicago-area centers the state inspected 3 times, how many of those inspections cited a rule:

  • None11%
  • 1 of 38%
  • 2 of 324%This center
  • All 357%
Read every record and the state’s reports

State record — Illinois DCFS

Last visit
September 23, 2026
On file
3 visits since September 2021 — 1 cited nothing
Fixed?
The latest correction deadline was October 23, 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.

Sep 2026 Monitoring visit 1 finding

Monitoring visit · September 23, 2026

Personnel Records

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(4) · Violation substantiated

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 500728 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Sep 2022 Compliance monitoring visit nothing cited
Sep 2021 Monitoring visit 1 finding

Monitoring visit · September 15, 2021

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 500728 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Details

Phone
(708) 338-2001
Address
117 N 19th Ave, Melrose Park, 60160

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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 "RLA LEARNING CENTER" under Provider Name and 60160 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 500728).
  • 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 "RLA LEARNING CENTER" under Provider Name and 60160 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 500728).

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.

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