Elmwood Park · Licensed center

Picket Fence Day Care & Learning Center

What the state has found

The state cited rules at 3 of its 6 licensing inspections since May 2021.

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

Apr 6, 20262 citations
  • A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, FHSEC305.

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

Mar 28, 2025No rules cited
Mar 29, 20237 citations
  • Personnel Records

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

  • Physical Plant/Indoor Space

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

  • Personnel Records

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

  • Personnel Records

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

3 more from this inspection
  • Organization and Administration

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.70(e)

  • Background Checks for Personnel

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.110

  • Personnel Records

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

Jun 22, 2022No rules cited
Apr 8, 20224 citations
  • Personnel Records

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

  • Personnel Records

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

  • Guidance and Discipline

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.270(a)

  • Napping and Sleeping

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.350(c)

May 10, 2021No rules cited
Read every record and the state’s reports

State record — Illinois DCFS

Last visit
April 6, 2026
On file
6 visits since May 2021 — 3 cited nothing
Fixed?
The latest correction deadline was May 6, 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.

Apr 2026 Monitoring visit 2 findings

Monitoring visit · April 6, 2026

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

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

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

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

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 222725 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Mar 2025 Compliance monitoring visit nothing cited
Mar 2023 Monitoring visit 7 findings

Monitoring visit · March 29, 2023

Personnel Records

4 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(1) through (4) · Violation corrected

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

Organization and Administration

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.70(e) · Violation corrected

Background Checks for Personnel

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

Physical Plant/Indoor Space

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(f)(3) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 222725 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Jun 2022 Compliance monitoring visit nothing cited
Apr 2022 Monitoring visit 4 findings

Monitoring visit · April 8, 2022

Personnel Records

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

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(2) · 407.120(a)(3)

Guidance and Discipline

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

Napping and Sleeping

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.350(c) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 222725 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

May 2021 Compliance monitoring visit nothing cited

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

7084524544

Address
36 W Conti Pkwy
License
license issued (il)

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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 "PICKET FENCE DAY CARE & LEARNING CENTER" under Provider Name and 60707 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 222725).

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.