Oak Park · Licensed center

Oak Park Montessori School

What the state has found

The state cited rules at 5 of its 6 licensing inspections since December 2015.

Of the 133 Chicago-area centers with 6 licensing inspections, 29% had rules cited at 5 of them, as this center did. 38% had rules cited at all 6.

Licensing inspections

May 29, 202610 citations

  • Background Checks for Personnel

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.110

  • General Requirements for Personnel

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(1)

  • Qualifications for Child Care Director

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.130(m)

  • Personnel Records

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

6 more from this inspection

  • Personnel Records

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

  • Personnel Records

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

  • Personnel Records

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

  • Personnel Records

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

  • Personnel Records

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

  • A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, FHSEC305.

May 20, 202510 citations

  • General Requirements for Personnel

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(1)

  • General Requirements for Personnel

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

  • General Requirements for Personnel

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(6)

  • General Requirements for Personnel

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(f)

6 more from this inspection

  • General Requirements for Personnel

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(7)

  • General Requirements for Personnel

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(d)

  • Background Checks for Personnel

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.110

  • Personnel Records

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

  • Personnel Records

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

  • A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, FHSEC305.

May 17, 202414 citations

  • General Requirements for Personnel

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(i)

  • Qualifications for Child Care Director

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.130(j)

  • Special Requirements for Infants and Toddlers

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.210(f)(8)

  • Nutrition and Meal Service

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.330(g)(1)

10 more from this inspection

  • Physical Plant/Indoor Space

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(e)(11)

  • General Requirements for Personnel

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(f)

  • General Requirements for Personnel

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(6)

  • General Requirements for Personnel

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(7)

  • Background Checks for Personnel

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.110

  • Personnel Records

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

  • Personnel Records

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

  • Special Requirements for Infants and Toddlers

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.210(b)

  • Physical Plant/Indoor Space

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(f)(3)

  • A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, FHSEC305.

Apr 21, 20235 citations

  • Personnel Records

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

  • Personnel Records

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

  • Personnel Records

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

  • Personnel Records

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

1 more from this inspection

  • A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, CCASEC4.

Mar 30, 2022No rules cited
Dec 4, 20153 citations

  • Qualifications for Early Childhood Assistants and School-age Assistants

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.150(c)

  • Substitutes

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.170(b)

  • Guidance and Discipline

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.270(c)(6)

Read every record and the state’s reports

State record — Illinois DCFS

Last visit
May 29, 2026
On file
6 visits since December 2015 — 1 cited nothing
Fixed?
The latest correction deadline was June 26, 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.

May 2026 Monitoring visit 10 findings

Monitoring visit · May 29, 2026

Personnel Records

6 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(2) through (e)(5) · Violation substantiated · Violation corrected

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

General Requirements for Personnel

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

Background Checks for Personnel

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

Qualifications for Child Care Director

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.130(m) · Violation substantiated

A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, FHSEC305.

0 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 504631 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

May 2025 Monitoring visit 10 findings

Monitoring visit · May 20, 2025

General Requirements for Personnel

6 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(1) through (f) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(1) · 407.100(c)(5) · 407.100(c)(6) · 407.100(c)(7) · 407.100(d) · 407.100(f)

Personnel Records

2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(3) through (4) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(3) · 407.120(a)(4)

Background Checks for Personnel

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

A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, FHSEC305.

0 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 504631 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

May 2024 Monitoring visit 14 findings

Monitoring visit · May 17, 2024

General Requirements for Personnel

4 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(6) through (i) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(6) · 407.100(c)(7) · 407.100(f) · 407.100(i)

Personnel Records

2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(3) through (4) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(3) · 407.120(a)(4)

Special Requirements for Infants and Toddlers

2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.210(b) through (f)(8) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.210(b) · 407.210(f)(8)

Physical Plant/Indoor Space

2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(e)(11) through (f)(3) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(e)(11) · 407.370(f)(3)

Background Checks for Personnel

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

Qualifications for Child Care Director

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.130(j) · Violation corrected

Nutrition and Meal Service

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.330(g)(1) · Violation corrected

A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, FHSEC305.

0 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 504631 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Apr 2023 Monitoring visit 5 findings

Monitoring visit · April 21, 2023

Personnel Records

4 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(3) through (e)(4) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(3) · 407.120(a)(4) · 407.120(e)(1) · 407.120(e)(4)

A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, CCASEC4.

0 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 504631 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Mar 2022 Compliance monitoring visit nothing cited
Dec 2015 Monitoring visit 3 findings

Monitoring visit · December 4, 2015

Qualifications for Early Childhood Assistants and School-age Assistants

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.150(c) · Violation corrected

Substitutes

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.170(b) · Violation corrected

Guidance and Discipline

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.270(c)(6) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 504631 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

3123430224

Address
937 Garfield St
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 "OAK PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL" under Provider Name and 60304 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 504631).

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.