La Grange · Licensed center

Alphabet Learning Center #4

What the state has found

The state cited rules at both of its licensing inspections since September 2023.

Of the 89 Chicago-area centers with 2 licensing inspections, 61% had rules cited at both, as this center did. 13% had none cited.

Licensing inspections

Dec 13, 20232 citations

  • Personnel Records

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(b)

  • Physical Plant/Indoor Space

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(d)(2)

Sep 22, 20232 citations

  • Grouping and Staffing

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.190

  • Special Requirements for Infants and Toddlers

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.210(f)(24)

Read every record and the state’s reports

State record — Illinois DCFS

Last visit
December 13, 2023
On file
2 visits since September 2023 — both cited findings
Fixed?
Correction was due January 12, 2024. 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.

Dec 2023 Monitoring visit 2 findings

Monitoring visit · December 13, 2023

Personnel Records

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(b) · Violation corrected

Physical Plant/Indoor Space

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(d)(2) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 617373 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Sep 2023 Monitoring visit 2 findings

Monitoring visit · September 22, 2023

Grouping and Staffing

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.190 · Violation corrected on site

Special Requirements for Infants and Toddlers

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.210(f)(24) · Violation corrected on site

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 617373 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Openings, child care subsidies, cost, hours and late pickup, teaching approach, ratios and staff, a typical day, and sick and biting policies aren’t on this page.

Details

7084850303

Address
404 Sherwood Rd
License
license issued (il)

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All checked August 2026.

State record

From Illinois DCFS’s published reports, last checked October 10, 2026.

Details

  • Phone, Address, License sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov/…/ProviderLookup.aspx. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "ALPHABET LEARNING CENTER #4" under Provider Name and 60526 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 617373).

Large means the biggest quarter of Chicago-area’s 1,949 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 119 to 487 children. Small is 8 to 48; medium is 49 to 118.