Chicago · Licensed center
Uic Children's Center-II
At a glance
- Medium play-based center, licensed for 52 children.
From their website, read August 2026:
“Blue Room 1:8 Up to 16 2.9 - 4 year olds”
“Green Room 1:9 Up to 16 4-5 year olds”
“Orange Room 1:8 Up to 18 2.6 - 4 year olds”
The state’s rule
Illinois sets the most children one adult may care for by age, and the largest group size, in 23 Ill. Adm. Code 2008.190(a).
Infants (6 weeks through 14 months): one adult for every four.
Toddlers (15 through 23 months): one adult for every five.
Two-year-olds: one adult for every eight.
Three-year-olds: one adult for every ten.
Four-year-olds: one adult for every ten.
Five-year-olds (preschool): one adult for every twenty.
School-age children, kindergartners present: one adult for every twenty.
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 4 of its 7 licensing inspections since February 2015.
See each inspection
Licensing inspections
- Feb 29, 2024Nothing cited
- Feb 28, 2023Nothing cited
- Mar 26, 2021Nothing cited
Jan 18, 20193 citations
Personnel Records
Personnel Records
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(2)
A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, FHSEC305.
A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, FHSEC305.
A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, CCASEC4.
A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, CCASEC4.
Jan 25, 20181 citation
A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, CCASEC4.
A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, CCASEC4.
Feb 8, 20173 citations
Personnel Records
Personnel Records
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(4)
General Requirements for Personnel
General Requirements for Personnel
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(d)
A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, CCASEC4.
A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, CCASEC4.
Feb 4, 20151 citation
Physical Plant/Indoor Space
Physical Plant/Indoor Space
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(e)(4)
The state cited rules at 4 of this center's 7 inspections. Most Chicago-area centers inspected 7 times had more: 80% of 149 had rules cited at 5 or more.
How all 149 Chicago-area centers inspected 7 times compare
Of the 149 Chicago-area centers the state inspected 7 times, how many of those inspections cited a rule:
- 2 of 71%
- 3 of 75%
- 4 of 714%This center
- 5 of 714%
- 6 of 726%
- All 740%
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
A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, FHSEC305.
0 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code · Violation corrected
A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, CCASEC4.
0 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code · Rule cited again
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
A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, 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
A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, 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.
A day here
- Updates for parents
- Teachers and administrators available in-person, by phone, or by email throughout the day
How they teach
Play-based
“The Center’s emphasis is on children learning through play.”
Details
- Phone
- (312) 413-5328
- Address
- 1919 West Taylor Street, Chicago, 60612
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Sources and dates
Where every fact on this page came from, and when Shortlist last checked it against that source. Anything Shortlist could not source is named here rather than left blank.
Children per adult
- Children per adult — Checked August 2026 childrenscenter.uic.edu
How they teach
- Approach — Checked August 2026 childrenscenter.uic.edu
State record
From Illinois DCFS’s published reports, last checked November 8, 2026.
A day here
- Updates for parents — Checked August 2026 childrenscenter.uic.edu
Details
- Phone, Address, License — Checked July 2026 sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov/…/ProviderLookup.aspx. 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 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 "UIC CHILDREN'S CENTER-II" under Provider Name and 60612 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 069552).
- Ages they serve — Checked August 2026 childrenscenter.uic.edu
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.