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Teddy Bear Nursery Schools LLC

At a glance

  • Medium center, licensed for 79 children.

What to know

License: 5 years to 12 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 both of its licensing inspections since July 2024.

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Licensing inspections

  • Oct 6, 20253 citations
    • Background Checks for Personnel
      • Background Checks for Personnel

        89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.110

    • Personnel Records
      • Personnel Records

        89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(3)

    • Personnel Records
      • Personnel Records

        89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(e)(2)

  • Jul 23, 20245 citations
    • Special Requirements for School-Age Children
      • Special Requirements for School-Age Children

        89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.220(d)(1)

    • Nutrition and Meal Service
      • Nutrition and Meal Service

        89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.330(h)

    • Physical Plant/Indoor Space
      • Physical Plant/Indoor Space

        89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(f)(2)

    • Equipment and Materials
      • Equipment and Materials

        89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.380(b)

    • Outdoor Play Area
      • Outdoor Play Area

        89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.390(a)

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
October 6, 2025
On file
2 visits since July 2024 — both cited findings
Fixed?
The latest correction deadline was November 5, 2025. 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.

Oct 2025 Monitoring visit 3 findings

Monitoring visit · October 6, 2025

Personnel Records

2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(3) through (e)(2) · Violation substantiated

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(3) · 407.120(e)(2)

Background Checks for Personnel

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.110 · Violation substantiated

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 625170 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Jul 2024 Monitoring visit 5 findings

Monitoring visit · July 23, 2024

Special Requirements for School-Age Children

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.220(d)(1) · Violation substantiated

Nutrition and Meal Service

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.330(h) · Violation substantiated

Physical Plant/Indoor Space

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(f)(2) · Violation substantiated

Equipment and Materials

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.380(b) · Violation substantiated

Outdoor Play Area

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.390(a) · Violation substantiated

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 625170 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Details

Phone
(773) 434-2327
Address
3483 W Columbus Ave # 85, Chicago, 60652
Ownership
For-profit

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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 "TEDDY BEAR NURSERY SCHOOLS LLC" under Provider Name and 60652 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 625170).
  • 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 "TEDDY BEAR NURSERY SCHOOLS LLC" under Provider Name and 60652 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 625170).
  • Ownership — Checked October 2026 data.cityofchicago.org

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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