Chicago · Licensed center
Fourth Church Day School
- Small play-based center, licensed for 32 children.
What the state has found
The state cited rules at 2 of its 3 licensing inspections since September 2018.
Of the 106 Chicago-area centers with 3 licensing inspections, 23% had rules cited at 2 of them, as this center did. 58% had rules cited at all 3, 10% at none.
Licensing inspections
Dec 8, 20231 citation
General Requirements for Personnel
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(f)
Sep 18, 20181 citation
General Requirements for Personnel
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(f)
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State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- December 8, 2023
- On file
- 3 visits since September 2018 — 1 cited nothing
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was January 7, 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 1 finding
Monitoring visit · December 8, 2023
General Requirements for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(f) · Violation substantiated
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 020373 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Sep 2018 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · September 18, 2018
General Requirements for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(f) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 020373 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Openings, child care subsidies, hours and late pickup, ratios and staff, a typical day, and sick and biting policies aren’t on this page.
How they teach
Play-based
“Staying true to its play-based philosophy, the Day School has grown from 1 class of preschoolers to 5+ programs with multiple classes”
What it costs
$625 to $1,260 a month
Chicago-area comparison hidden until they say which age this price is for.
- Application fee
- $0
Details
- Website
- fourthchurchdayschool.org
- Address
- 126 East Chestnut Street
- License
- pending renewal application (rn)
- Ages they serve
- ages 1 to 5 years
- Established
- 1968
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How they teach
- Approach — Checked August 2026 fourthchurchdayschool.org
What it costs
- Monthly tuition — Checked August 2026 fourthchurchdayschool.org
- Application fee — Checked August 2026 fourthchurchdayschool.org
State record
From Illinois DCFS’s published reports, last checked October 10, 2026.
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 "FOURTH CHURCH DAY SCHOOL" under Provider Name and 60611 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 020373).
- Website — Checked August 2026 fourthchurchdayschool.org
- Ages they serve, Established — Checked August 2026 fourthchurchdayschool.org
Small means the smallest quarter of Chicago-area’s 1,949 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 8 to 48 children. Medium is 49 to 118; large is 119 to 487.