Chicago · Licensed center
Roots Early Learning Center LLC
A center in Chicago, licensed for 43 children.
Small center. 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.
Shortlist doesn’t have these yet: cost, hours and late pickup, teaching approach, ratios and staff, a typical day, sick and biting policies.
What the state has found
Routine visits: 2 of 2 cited something
Across Chicago-area centers, the state cites something at about 5 in 6 routine visits (19,088 visits). Two visits are too few to read as a pattern.
From Illinois DCFS’s published reports, last checked September 25, 2026.
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- August 25, 2026
- On file
- 2 visits since March 2026 — both cited findings
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was September 24, 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.
Aug 2026 Monitoring visit 11 findings
Monitoring visit · August 25, 2026
Personnel Records
5 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(2) through (b) · Violation substantiated
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(2) · 407.120(a)(3) · 407.120(a)(4) · 407.120(a)(6) · 407.120(b)
General Requirements for Personnel
3 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(5) through (7) · Violation substantiated
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(5) · 407.100(c)(6) · 407.100(c)(7)
Organization and Administration
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.70(e) · Violation substantiated
Qualifications for Child Care Director
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.130(j) · Violation substantiated
Physical Plant/Indoor Space
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(e)(11) · Violation substantiated
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 640901 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Mar 2026 Monitoring visit 3 findings
Monitoring visit · March 16, 2026
Organization and Administration
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.70(i) · Violation corrected
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(a) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 640901 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- 7736776405
- Website
- rootsearlylearning.com
- Address
- 1604 N Richmond St
- License
- license issued (il)
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State record
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Details
- Phone, Address, License — Checked July 2026 · sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "ROOTS EARLY LEARNING CENTER LLC" under Provider Name and 60647 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 640901).
- Website — Checked August 2026 · rootsearlylearning.com