Chicago · Licensed center
The Childrens Garden Academy Inc
At a glance
- Medium center, licensed for 75 children.
What to know
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 2 of its 3 licensing inspections since November 2022.
See each inspection
Licensing inspections
Jan 24, 20251 citation
Qualifications for Child Care Director
Qualifications for Child Care Director
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.130(i)
- Jan 17, 2025Nothing cited
Nov 15, 20221 citation
General Requirements for Personnel
General Requirements for Personnel
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(1)
The state cited rules at 2 of this center's 3 inspections. Most Chicago-area centers inspected 3 times had more: 57% of 110 had rules cited at all 3.
How all 110 Chicago-area centers inspected 3 times compare
Of the 110 Chicago-area centers the state inspected 3 times, how many of those inspections cited a rule:
- None11%
- 1 of 38%
- 2 of 324%This center
- All 357%
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- January 24, 2025
- On file
- 3 visits since November 2022 — 1 cited nothing
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was February 24, 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.
Jan 2025 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · January 24, 2025
Qualifications for Child Care Director
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.130(i) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 582471 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Nov 2022 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · November 15, 2022
General Requirements for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(1) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 582471 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- (773) 359-4799
- Address
- 2600 E 83rd St, Chicago, 60617
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State record
From Illinois DCFS’s published reports, last checked November 8, 2026.
Details
- Phone, Address — Checked July 2026 sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov/…/ProviderLookup.aspx. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "THE CHILDRENS GARDEN ACADEMY INC" under Provider Name and 60617 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 582471).
- 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 CHILDRENS GARDEN ACADEMY INC" under Provider Name and 60617 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 582471).
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.