Cicero · Licensed center

The Children's Center Of Cicero-Berwyn

At a glance

Small center, licensed for 20 children.

What to know

License: 3 years 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 both of its licensing inspections since May 2024.

See each inspection

Licensing inspections

Sep 4, 20246 citations
- Application for License
  Application for License
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.50(b)(1)
- Staffing Structure
  Staffing Structure
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.90(a)(1)
- General Requirements for Personnel
  General Requirements for Personnel
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(1)
- Personnel Records
  Personnel Records
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(3)
- Qualifications for Child Care Director
  Qualifications for Child Care Director
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.130(l)(1)
- Equipment and Materials
  Equipment and Materials
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.380(j)(4)(n)
May 8, 20242 citations
- General Requirements for Personnel
  General Requirements for Personnel
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(1)
- General Requirements for Personnel
  General Requirements for Personnel
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(5)

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: September 4, 2024
On file: 2 visits since May 2024 — both cited findings
Fixed?: The latest correction deadline was October 4, 2024. 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 2024 Monitoring visit 6 findings

Monitoring visit · September 4, 2024

Application for License

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.50(b)(1) · Violation corrected

Staffing Structure

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.90(a)(1) · Violation corrected

General Requirements for Personnel

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

Personnel Records

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

Qualifications for Child Care Director

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.130(l)(1) · Violation corrected

Equipment and Materials

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.380(j)(4)(n) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 527102 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

May 2024 Monitoring visit 2 findings

Monitoring visit · May 8, 2024

General Requirements for Personnel

2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(1) through (5) · Violation substantiated

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

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 527102 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Details

Phone: (708) 652-1202
Address: 2724 S 61st Ave, Cicero, 60804

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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 "THE CHILDREN'S CENTER OF CICERO-BERWYN" under Provider Name and 60804 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 527102).
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 527102).

Small means the smallest quarter of Chicago-area’s 1,948 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 8 to 48 children. Medium is 49 to 118; 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.