Chicago · Licensed center

Kids Ark Daycare & Learning Center

What the state has found

The state cited rules at 2 of its 3 licensing inspections since March 2025.

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

Jun 18, 20261 citation

  • Background Checks for Personnel

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.110

Apr 6, 20262 citations

  • Personnel Records

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)

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

Mar 6, 2025No rules cited
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State record — Illinois DCFS

Last visit
June 18, 2026
On file
3 visits since March 2025 — 1 cited nothing
Fixed?
The latest correction deadline was June 23, 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.

Jun 2026 Monitoring visit 1 finding

Monitoring visit · June 18, 2026

Background Checks for Personnel

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.110 · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 620973 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Apr 2026 Monitoring visit 2 findings

Monitoring visit · April 6, 2026

Personnel Records

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a) · 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 620973 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Mar 2025 Compliance monitoring visit nothing cited

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

7738655585

Address
3143 N Central Ave # 45
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 "KIDS ARK DAYCARE & LEARNING CENTER" under Provider Name and 60634 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 620973).

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.