Chicago · Licensed center
Sonyae's Caring Hands
A center in Chicago, licensed for 44 children. The state cited something at 4 of 4 routine visits (Chicago-area centers: about 5 in 6). Shortlist has found no website for it yet.
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: 4 of 4 cited something
Across Chicago-area centers, the state cites something at about 5 in 6 routine visits (19,088 visits).
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
- December 18, 2025
- On file
- 4 visits since March 2024 — all of them cited findings
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was January 18, 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.
Dec 2025 Monitoring visit 12 findings
Monitoring visit · December 18, 2025
Personnel Records
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a) through (3) · Violation substantiated
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a) · 407.120(a)(3)
Guidance and Discipline
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.270(a) through (c) · Violation substantiated
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.270(a) · 407.270(c)
Diapering and Toileting Procedures
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.340(a)(2) through (4) · Violation substantiated
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.340(a)(2) · 407.340(a)(4)
Physical Plant/Indoor Space
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(f)(1) through (2) · Violation substantiated
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(f)(1) · 407.370(f)(2)
General Requirements for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(f) · Violation substantiated
Grouping and Staffing
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.190 · Violation substantiated
Special Requirements for Infants and Toddlers
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.210(f)(21) · Violation substantiated
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(i)(3) · Violation substantiated
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 606246 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Jul 2024 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · July 22, 2024
Outdoor Play Area
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.390(l) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 606246 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Apr 2024 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · April 15, 2024
General Requirements for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(5) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 606246 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Mar 2024 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · March 13, 2024
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 606246 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- 7734411145
- Address
- 8625 S Cottage Grove Ave
- License
- license issued (il)
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Sources and dates
Where every fact on this page came from, and when Shortlist last checked it against that source. Anything Shortlist could not source is named here rather than left blank.
All checked July 2026.
State record
Every state visit and complaint on file, shown in full and never edited. Open a date to read what the state wrote.
Details
- Phone, Address, License — sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "SONYAE'S CARING HANDS" under Provider Name and 60619 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 606246).