Chicago · Licensed center
Uic Children's Center-II
- Medium play-based center, licensed for 52 children.
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.
How they teach
Play-based
“The Center’s emphasis is on children learning through play.”In their words, August 2026.childrenscenter.uic.edu
One of 70 Chicago-area providers that describe a play-based approach, out of 129 that describe any approach at all.
Who cares for your child
One adult for every eight to nine preschoolers
Shortlist has not yet sourced this state’s legal ratio limit, so there is nothing to set this beside yet.
Shortlist doesn’t have these yet: cost, hours and late pickup, sick and biting policies.
What the state has found
Routine visits: 4 of 7 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
- February 29, 2024
- On file
- 7 visits since February 2015 — 3 cited nothing
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was February 6, 2019. 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 2019 Monitoring visit 3 findings
Monitoring visit · January 18, 2019
Personnel Records
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(2) · Violation corrected
Cited: CCASEC4
0 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code · Rule cited again
Cited: FHSEC305
0 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 069552 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Jan 2018 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · January 25, 2018
Cited: CCASEC4
0 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 069552 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Feb 2017 Monitoring visit 3 findings
Monitoring visit · February 8, 2017
General Requirements for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(d) · Violation corrected
Personnel Records
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(4) · Violation corrected
Cited: CCASEC4
0 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 069552 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Feb 2015 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · February 4, 2015
Physical Plant/Indoor Space
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(e)(4) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 069552 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).
A day here
- Updates for parents
- Teachers and administrators available in-person, by phone, or by email throughout the day
Details
- Website
- childrenscenter.uic.edu
- Address
- 1919 West Taylor Street
- License
- license issued (il)
- Ages they serve
- preschool aged children
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How they teach
- Approach — Checked August 2026 childrenscenter.uic.edu
Who cares for your child
- Children per adult — Checked August 2026 childrenscenter.uic.edu
State record
Every state visit and complaint on file, shown in full and never edited. Open a date to read what the state wrote.
A day here
- Updates for parents — Checked August 2026 childrenscenter.uic.edu
Details
- Phone, Address, License — Checked July 2026 sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "UIC CHILDREN'S CENTER-II" under Provider Name and 60612 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 069552).
- Website — Checked August 2026 childrenscenter.uic.edu
- Ages they serve — Checked August 2026 childrenscenter.uic.edu