Chicago · Licensed center

Lily Pad Nursery And Preschool

What the state has found

The state cited rules at its 1 licensing inspection, in December 2024.

Of the 55 Chicago-area centers with 1 licensing inspection, 82% had rules cited at it, as this center did. 18% had none cited.

Licensing inspections

Dec 17, 20243 citations

  • Equipment and Materials

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.380(a)

  • Special Requirements for Infants and Toddlers

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.210(b)

  • General Requirements for Personnel

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(h)

Read every record and the state’s reports

State record — Illinois DCFS

Last visit
December 17, 2024
On file
1 visit, December 2024 — it cited findings
Fixed?
Correction was due January 10, 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.

Dec 2024 Monitoring visit 3 findings

Monitoring visit · December 17, 2024

General Requirements for Personnel

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

Special Requirements for Infants and Toddlers

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.210(b) · Violation corrected

Equipment and Materials

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.380(a) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 631560 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

3122919256

Address
1025 W Van Buren St
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 "STEPPING STONES NURSERY SCHOOL" under Provider Name and 60607 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 631560).

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.