Cicero · Licensed center

The Children's Center Of Cicero/Berwyn

At a glance

Medium center, licensed for 63 children.
Run by a nonprofit. A board oversees it, and there are no owners taking profit.

What to know

License: 3 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 all 4 of its licensing inspections since January 2010.

See each inspection

Licensing inspections

Dec 15, 20254 citations
- General Requirements for Personnel
  General Requirements for Personnel
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(5)
- Personnel Records
  Personnel Records
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(3)
- Health Requirements for Children
  Health Requirements for Children
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(5)
- A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, CCASEC7.
  A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, CCASEC7.
Dec 11, 20248 citations
- Organization and Administration
  Organization and Administration
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.70(e)
- Organization and Administration
  Organization and Administration
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.70(e)(3)
- General Requirements for Personnel
  General Requirements for Personnel
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(5)
- General Requirements for Personnel
  General Requirements for Personnel
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(6)
- General Requirements for Personnel
  General Requirements for Personnel
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(f)
- Personnel Records
  Personnel Records
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(3)
- A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, FHSEC305.
  A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, FHSEC305.
- A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, CCASEC4.
  A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, CCASEC4.
Dec 9, 20101 citation
- Personnel Records
  Personnel Records
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(2)
Jan 12, 20102 citations
- Nutrition and Meal Service
  Nutrition and Meal Service
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.330(l)(2)
- Physical Plant/Indoor Space
  Physical Plant/Indoor Space
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(f)

The state cited rules at all 4 of this center's inspections. Most Chicago-area centers inspected 4 times had the same: 59% of 117.

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%
2 of 413%
3 of 422%
All 459%This center

Read every record and the state’s reports

State record — Illinois DCFS

Last visit: December 15, 2025
On file: 4 visits since January 2010 — all of them cited findings
Fixed?: The latest correction deadline was January 14, 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 4 findings

Monitoring visit · December 15, 2025

General Requirements for Personnel

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(5) · Violation corrected

Personnel Records

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(3) · Violation corrected

Health Requirements for Children

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(5) · Violation corrected

A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, CCASEC7.

0 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 008233 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Dec 2024 Monitoring visit 8 findings

Monitoring visit · December 11, 2024

General Requirements for Personnel

3 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(5) through (f) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(5) · 407.100(c)(6) · 407.100(f)

Organization and Administration

2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.70(e) through (3) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.70(e) · 407.70(e)(3)

Personnel Records

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(3) · Violation corrected

A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, FHSEC305.

0 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code · Violation corrected

A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, CCASEC4.

0 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 008233 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Dec 2010 Monitoring visit 1 finding

Monitoring visit · December 9, 2010

Personnel Records

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(2) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 008233 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Jan 2010 Monitoring visit 2 findings

Monitoring visit · January 12, 2010

Nutrition and Meal Service

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.330(l)(2) · Violation corrected

Physical Plant/Indoor Space

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

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 008233 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Details

Phone: (708) 652-1202
Address: 1447 S 50th Ct, Cicero, 60804

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State record

From Illinois DCFS’s published reports, last checked November 8, 2026.

Details

Phone, Address — Checked August 2026 sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov/…/ProviderLookup.aspx. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "THE CHILDREN'S CENTER OF CICERO/BERWYN" under Provider Name and 60804 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 008233).
License, 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 "THE CHILDREN'S CENTER OF CICERO/BERWYN" under Provider Name and 60804 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 008233).
Who runs it — Checked November 2026 projects.propublica.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.