Yorkville · Licensed center
The Children's Courtyard
A center in Yorkville, licensed for 81 children. Shortlist has found no website for it yet.
Medium center. Medium means the middle half of Chicago-area’s 1,949 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 49 to 118 children. Small is 8 to 48; 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
- May 1, 2026
- On file
- 2 visits since June 2025 — both cited findings
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was June 1, 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.
May 2026 Monitoring visit 5 findings
Monitoring visit · May 1, 2026
Background Checks for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.110 · Violation substantiated
Personnel Records
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(2) · Violation substantiated
Special Requirements for Infants and Toddlers
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.210(i) · Violation substantiated
Nutrition and Meal Service
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.330(b) · Violation substantiated
Outdoor Play Area
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.390(i)(2) · Violation substantiated
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 638283 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Jun 2025 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · June 23, 2025
Health Requirements for Children
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(5) · Violation corrected
Outdoor Play Area
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.390(m) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 638283 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- 3314002270
- Address
- 708 E Veterans Pkwy
- License
- license issued (il)
- Chain
- The Children's CourtyardSource: childrenscourtyard.com
- Owner
- American Securities (via Learning Care Group)The Children’s Courtyard is one of Learning Care Group's brands. The private-equity firm American Securities lists Learning Care Group among its current companies, an investment it made in 2014. american-securities.com
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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 — Checked August 2026 · sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "THE CHILDREN'S COURTYARD" under Provider Name and 60560 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 638283).
- Chain — Checked September 2026 · childrenscourtyard.com
- Owner — Checked September 2026 · american-securities.com