Melrose Park · Licensed center
The Kids Lounge
At a glance
- Medium center, licensed for 49 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 both of its licensing inspections since August 2022.
See each inspection
Licensing inspections
Sep 11, 20252 citations
Health Requirements for Children
Health Requirements for Children
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(5)
Health Requirements for Children
Health Requirements for Children
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(6)
Aug 22, 20222 citations
General Requirements for Personnel
General Requirements for Personnel
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(5)
Guidance and Discipline
Guidance and Discipline
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.270(a)
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 11, 2025
- On file
- 2 visits since August 2022 — both cited findings
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was October 10, 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.
Sep 2025 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · September 11, 2025
Health Requirements for Children
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(5) through (6) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(5) · 407.310(a)(6)
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 569778 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Aug 2022 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · August 22, 2022
General Requirements for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(5) · Violation corrected
Guidance and Discipline
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.270(a) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 569778 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- (708) 223-8054
- Address
- 143 N 19th Ave, Melrose Park, 60160
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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 KIDS LOUNGE" under Provider Name and 60160 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 569778).
- 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 KIDS LOUNGE" under Provider Name and 60160 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 569778).
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.