Chicago · Licensed center

Helen Lucy Child Care Center

What the state has found

The state cited rules at all 3 of its licensing inspections since July 2014.

Of the 106 Chicago-area centers with 3 licensing inspections, 58% had rules cited at all 3, as this center did. 10% had none cited.

Licensing inspections

Jul 10, 20173 citations

  • Personnel Records

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(4)

  • A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, CCASEC4.

  • A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, FHSEC305.

Jul 25, 201615 citations

  • Health Requirements for Children

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(3)

  • Personnel Records

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(3)

  • Organization and Administration

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.70(e)(1)

  • General Requirements for Personnel

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(6)

11 more from this inspection

  • Guidance and Discipline

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.270(c)

  • Organization and Administration

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.70(e)(2)

  • Organization and Administration

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.70(e)(3)

  • General Requirements for Personnel

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(5)

  • Personnel Records

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(6)

  • Enrollment and Discharge Procedures

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(h)

  • Guidance and Discipline

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.270(b)

  • Health Requirements for Children

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(5)

  • Health Requirements for Children

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(6)

  • Guidance and Discipline

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.270(a)

  • Personnel Records

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(4)

Jul 7, 20144 citations

  • Personnel Records

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(4)

  • Enrollment and Discharge Procedures

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(i)(2)(a)

  • Enrollment and Discharge Procedures

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(i)(2)(e)

  • General Requirements for Personnel

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(5)

Read every record and the state’s reports

State record — Illinois DCFS

Last visit
July 10, 2017
On file
3 visits since July 2014 — all of them cited findings
Fixed?
The latest correction deadline was August 10, 2017. 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.

Jul 2017 Monitoring visit 3 findings

Monitoring visit · July 10, 2017

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

A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, FHSEC305.

0 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 478687 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Jul 2016 Monitoring visit 15 findings

Monitoring visit · July 25, 2016

Organization and Administration

3 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.70(e)(1) through (3) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.70(e)(1) · 407.70(e)(2) · 407.70(e)(3)

Personnel Records

3 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(3) through (6) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(3) · 407.120(a)(4) · 407.120(a)(6)

Guidance and Discipline

3 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.270(a) through (c) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.270(a) · 407.270(b) · 407.270(c)

Health Requirements for Children

3 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(3) through (6) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(3) · 407.310(a)(5) · 407.310(a)(6)

General Requirements for Personnel

2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(5) through (6) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(5) · 407.100(c)(6)

Enrollment and Discharge Procedures

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(h) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 478687 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Jul 2014 Monitoring visit 4 findings

Monitoring visit · July 7, 2014

Enrollment and Discharge Procedures

2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(i)(2)(a) through (e) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(i)(2)(a) · 407.250(i)(2)(e)

General Requirements for Personnel

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(5) · Violation corrected

Personnel Records

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(4) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 478687 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

7735123451

Address
5801 N Northwest Hwy
License
pending renewal application (rn)

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All checked July 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 "HELEN LUCY CHILD CARE CENTER" under Provider Name and 60631 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 478687).

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.