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Papoose Children's Center

What the state has found

The state cited rules at 2 of its 3 licensing inspections since July 2013.

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

Aug 7, 20253 citations

  • General Requirements for Personnel

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100

  • Personnel Records

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

  • Personnel Records

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120

Apr 5, 2021No rules cited
Jul 26, 20131 citation

  • Physical Plant/Indoor Space

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(f)

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State record — Illinois DCFS

Last visit
August 7, 2025
On file
3 visits since July 2013 — 1 cited nothing
Fixed?
Correction was due September 8, 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.

Aug 2025 Monitoring visit 3 findings

Monitoring visit · August 7, 2025

Personnel Records

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

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

General Requirements for Personnel

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100 · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 402810 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Apr 2021 Compliance monitoring visit nothing cited
Jul 2013 Monitoring visit 1 finding

Monitoring visit · July 26, 2013

Physical Plant/Indoor Space

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(f) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 402810 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

7084221112

Address
5354 W 95th St
License
license issued (il)

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State record

From Illinois DCFS’s published reports, last checked October 10, 2026.

Details

  • Phone, Address — Checked August 2026 sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov/…/ProviderLookup.aspx. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "PAPOOSE CHILDREN'S CENTER" under Provider Name and 60453 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 402810).
  • License — Checked October 2026 sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov/…/ProviderLookup.aspx. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "PAPOOSE CHILDREN'S CENTER" under Provider Name and 60453 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 402810).

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.