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La Branche's Childcare Center

What the state has found

The state cited rules at all 8 of its licensing inspections since February 2010.

Of the 127 Chicago-area centers with 8 licensing inspections, 36% had rules cited at all 8, as this center did.

Licensing inspections

May 12, 20253 citations

  • Enrollment and Discharge Procedures

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

  • Health Requirements for Children

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(7)

  • Health Requirements for Children

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(9)

Mar 5, 20244 citations

  • Enrollment and Discharge Procedures

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(d)

  • Enrollment and Discharge Procedures

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

  • Personnel Records

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

  • Health Requirements for Children

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

Feb 9, 20222 citations

  • Grouping and Staffing

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.190(d)(2)

  • Enrollment and Discharge Procedures

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(d)

Mar 24, 20211 citation

  • General Requirements for Personnel

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

Jan 19, 20219 citations

  • Personnel Records

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

  • Background Checks for Personnel

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.110

  • Program Requirements for All Ages

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.200(r)

  • Staffing Structure

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.90(a)(2)

5 more from this inspection

  • Personnel Records

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

  • Personnel Records

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

  • Personnel Records

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(5)

  • Personnel Records

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

  • Personnel Records

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

Feb 17, 20152 citations

  • Physical Plant/Indoor Space

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(f)

  • Staffing Structure

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.90(d)

Dec 30, 20111 citation

  • Grouping and Staffing

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.190(f)

Feb 19, 20101 citation

  • Personnel Records

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

Read every record and the state’s reports

State record — Illinois DCFS

Last visit
May 12, 2025
On file
8 visits since February 2010 — all of them cited findings
Fixed?
The latest correction deadline was June 11, 2025. 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.

May 2025 Monitoring visit 3 findings

Monitoring visit · May 12, 2025

Health Requirements for Children

2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(7) through (9) · Violation substantiated

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(7) · 407.310(a)(9)

Enrollment and Discharge Procedures

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

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 438254 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Mar 2024 Monitoring visit 4 findings

Monitoring visit · March 5, 2024

Enrollment and Discharge Procedures

2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(d) through (i)(4)(a) · Violation substantiated

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

Personnel Records

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(e)(2) · Violation substantiated

Health Requirements for Children

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

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 438254 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Feb 2022 Monitoring visit 2 findings

Monitoring visit · February 9, 2022

Grouping and Staffing

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.190(d)(2) · Violation substantiated

Enrollment and Discharge Procedures

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(d) · Violation substantiated

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 438254 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Mar 2021 Monitoring visit 1 finding

Monitoring visit · March 24, 2021

General Requirements for Personnel

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

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 438254 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Jan 2021 Monitoring visit 9 findings

Monitoring visit · January 19, 2021

Personnel Records

6 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(1) through (6) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(1) · 407.120(a)(2) · 407.120(a)(3) · 407.120(a)(4) · 407.120(a)(5) · 407.120(a)(6)

Staffing Structure

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.90(a)(2) · Violation corrected

Background Checks for Personnel

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

Program Requirements for All Ages

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.200(r) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 438254 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Feb 2015 Monitoring visit 2 findings

Monitoring visit · February 17, 2015

Staffing Structure

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.90(d) · Violation substantiated

Physical Plant/Indoor Space

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(f) · Violation substantiated

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 438254 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Dec 2011 Monitoring visit 1 finding

Monitoring visit · December 30, 2011

Grouping and Staffing

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.190(f) · Violation substantiated

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 438254 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Feb 2010 Monitoring visit 1 finding

Monitoring visit · February 19, 2010

Personnel Records

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

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 438254 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

7087564010

Address
1644 Vincennes Ave
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 "LA BRANCHE'S CHILDCARE CENTER" under Provider Name and 60411 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 438254).

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.