Chicago · Licensed center
Little Leaders Academy
- Small center, licensed for 20 children.
- Shortlist has found no website for it yet.
What the state has found
The state cited rules at 2 of its 3 licensing inspections since August 2022.
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
Oct 7, 20254 citations
General Requirements for Personnel
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(2)
Background Checks for Personnel
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.110
General Requirements for Personnel
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(f)
General Requirements for Personnel
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(6)
Aug 26, 20225 citations
Personnel Records
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(3)
General Requirements for Personnel
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(1)
General Requirements for Personnel
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(2)
Health Requirements for Children
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(5)
1 more from this inspection
Health Requirements for Children
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(6)
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- October 7, 2025
- On file
- 3 visits since August 2022 — 1 cited nothing
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was November 7, 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.
Oct 2025 Monitoring visit 4 findings
Monitoring visit · October 7, 2025
General Requirements for Personnel
3 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(2) through (f) · Violation substantiated
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(2) · 407.100(c)(6) · 407.100(f)
Background Checks for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.110 · Violation substantiated
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 586530 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Aug 2022 Monitoring visit 5 findings
Monitoring visit · August 26, 2022
General Requirements for Personnel
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(1) through (2) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(1) · 407.100(c)(2)
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)
Personnel Records
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(3) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 586530 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
- 1856 W 69th St # 58
- License
- pending renewal application (rn)
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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 "LITTLE LEADERS ACADEMY" under Provider Name and 60636 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 586530).
Small means the smallest quarter of Chicago-area’s 1,949 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 8 to 48 children. Medium is 49 to 118; large is 119 to 487.