Joliet · Licensed center

The Gray Academy Inc.

Medium center, licensed for 63 children.
Shortlist has found no website for it yet.

What these mean, and where they come from

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: 4 of 5 cited something

Chicago-area centers: the state cites something at about 5 in 6 routine visits.

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 12, 2026
On file: 5 visits since February 2022 — 1 cited nothing
Fixed?: The latest correction deadline was October 26, 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.

May 2026 Compliance monitoring visit nothing cited

Sep 2025 Monitoring visit 2 findings

Monitoring visit · September 26, 2025

General Requirements for Personnel

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

Special Requirements for Infants and Toddlers

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.210(b) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 603672 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Nov 2022 Monitoring visit 4 findings

Monitoring visit · November 10, 2022

Special Requirements for Infants and Toddlers

2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.210(f)(16) through (19) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.210(f)(16) · 407.210(f)(19)

Nutrition and Meal Service

2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.330(a) through (h) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.330(a) · 407.330(h)

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 603672 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Nov 2022 Monitoring visit 16 findings

Monitoring visit · November 3, 2022

Personnel Records

10 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a) through (f)(2) · Violation substantiated

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a) · 407.120(a)(2) · 407.120(a)(3) · 407.120(a)(4) · 407.120(a)(6) · 407.120(e)(1) · 407.120(e)(2) · 407.120(e)(4) · 407.120(e)(5) · 407.120(f)(2)

Special Requirements for Infants and Toddlers

3 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.210(c) through (d) · Violation substantiated

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.210(c) · 407.210(c)(1) · 407.210(d)

Physical Plant/Indoor Space

2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(d) through (1) · Violation substantiated

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(d) · 407.370(d)(1)

Outdoor Play Area

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.390(l)(10) · Violation substantiated

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 603672 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Feb 2022 Monitoring visit 5 findings

Monitoring visit · February 9, 2022

Staffing Structure

2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.90(a) through (b) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.90(a) · 407.90(b)

General Requirements for Personnel

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

Grouping and Staffing

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.190(a) · Violation corrected

Health Requirements for Children

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

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 603672 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

How the comparison is built

Routine visits: across Chicago-area centers, the state cites something at about 5 in 6 routine visits (19,088 visits).

Details

7794564729

Address: 1100 Plainfield Rd Ste 4
License: license issued (il)

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All checked August 2026.

State record

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Details

Phone, Address, License sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "THE GRAY ACADEMY INC." under Provider Name and 60435 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 603672).