Oak Lawn · Licensed center
Noah's Ark Preschool
- Small center, licensed for 45 children.
- Shortlist has found no website for it yet.
What the state has found
The state cited rules at 3 of its 6 licensing inspections since September 2013.
Of the 133 Chicago-area centers with 6 licensing inspections, 12% had rules cited at 3 of them, as this center did. 38% had rules cited at all 6.
Licensing inspections
Sep 9, 20262 citations
Health Requirements for Children
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)
Personnel Records
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)
Sep 12, 20252 citations
Qualifications for Child Care Director
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.130(d)
Health Requirements for Children
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(d)
Sep 24, 20132 citations
Personnel Records
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(2)
General Requirements for Personnel
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(1)
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- September 9, 2026
- On file
- 6 visits since September 2013 — 3 cited nothing
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was October 7, 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.
Sep 2026 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · September 9, 2026
Personnel Records
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a) · Violation substantiated
Health Requirements for Children
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a) · Violation substantiated
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 397395 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Sep 2025 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · September 12, 2025
Qualifications for Child Care Director
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.130(d) · Violation corrected
Health Requirements for Children
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(d) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 397395 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Sep 2013 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · September 24, 2013
General Requirements for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(1) · Violation corrected
Personnel Records
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(2) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 397395 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
- 9230 S Pulaski Rd
- License
- pending renewal application (rn)
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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 "NOAH'S ARK PRESCHOOL" under Provider Name and 60453 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 397395).
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.