Chicago · Licensed center
Literacy Zone, Inc.
- Medium center, licensed for 68 children.
- Shortlist has found no website for it yet.
What the state has found
The state cited rules at 1 of its 3 licensing inspections since August 2017.
Of the 106 Chicago-area centers with 3 licensing inspections, 8% had rules cited at 1 of them, as this center did. 58% had rules cited at all 3, 10% at none.
Licensing inspections
Aug 29, 20171 citation
Grouping and Staffing
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.190(a)
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State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- June 11, 2026
- On file
- 3 visits since August 2017 — 2 cited nothing
- 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 2017 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · August 29, 2017
Grouping and Staffing
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.190(a) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 524676 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
- Address
- 5831 S Western Ave
- License
- license issued (il)
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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 "LITERACY ZONE, INC." under Provider Name and 60636 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 524676).
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.