Melrose Park · Licensed center

Honey Bear Day Care Center LLC

What the state has found

The state cited rules at all 4 of its licensing inspections since August 2022.

Of the 123 Chicago-area centers with 4 licensing inspections, 59% had rules cited at all 4, as this center did. 2% had none cited.

Licensing inspections

Aug 21, 20262 citations

  • Nutrition and Meal Service

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.330(l)(1)

  • Equipment and Materials

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.380(f)

Sep 11, 20258 citations

  • Personnel Records

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

  • Enrollment and Discharge Procedures

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(c)

  • Health Requirements for Children

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

  • Personnel Records

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(1)

4 more from this inspection

  • Personnel Records

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(2)

  • Health Requirements for Children

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

  • Physical Plant/Indoor Space

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(e)

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

Aug 16, 20236 citations

  • Health Requirements for Children

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

  • General Requirements for Personnel

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(7)

  • Personnel Records

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(2)

  • Enrollment and Discharge Procedures

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(i)(4)(a)

2 more from this inspection

  • Organization and Administration

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.70(i)

  • General Requirements for Personnel

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

Aug 15, 20226 citations

  • Organization and Administration

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.70(i)

  • General Requirements for Personnel

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

  • Nutrition and Meal Service

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.330(b)

  • Napping and Sleeping

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.350(j)

2 more from this inspection

  • Personnel Records

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(2)

  • Enrollment and Discharge Procedures

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

Read every record and the state’s reports

State record — Illinois DCFS

Last visit
August 21, 2026
On file
4 visits since August 2022 — all of them cited findings
Fixed?
The latest correction deadline was September 20, 2026. 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.

Aug 2026 Monitoring visit 2 findings

Monitoring visit · August 21, 2026

Nutrition and Meal Service

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.330(l)(1) · Violation substantiated

Equipment and Materials

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.380(f) · Violation substantiated

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 516369 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Sep 2025 Monitoring visit 8 findings

Monitoring visit · September 11, 2025

Personnel Records

3 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(1) through (e)(4) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(1) · 407.120(a)(2) · 407.120(e)(4)

Health Requirements for Children

2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(5) through (6) · Violation corrected

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

Enrollment and Discharge Procedures

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

Physical Plant/Indoor Space

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(e) · 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 516369 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Aug 2023 Monitoring visit 6 findings

Monitoring visit · August 16, 2023

General Requirements for Personnel

2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(6) through (7) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(6) · 407.100(c)(7)

Organization and Administration

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.70(i) · Violation corrected

Personnel Records

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(2) · Violation corrected

Enrollment and Discharge Procedures

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(i)(4)(a) · Violation corrected

Health Requirements for Children

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(3) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 516369 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Aug 2022 Monitoring visit 6 findings

Monitoring visit · August 15, 2022

Organization and Administration

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.70(i) · Violation corrected

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)(2) · Violation corrected

Enrollment and Discharge Procedures

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(i)(2) · Violation corrected

Nutrition and Meal Service

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.330(b) · Violation corrected

Napping and Sleeping

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.350(j) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 516369 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

8474558687

Address
2359 N Mannheim 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 "HONEY BEAR DAY CARE CENTER LLC" under Provider Name and 60164 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 516369).

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.