Chicago · Licensed center

Rainforest Learning Center

What the state has found

The state cited rules at both of its licensing inspections since January 2025.

Of the 90 Chicago-area centers with 2 licensing inspections, 61% had rules cited at both, as this center did. 13% had none cited.

Licensing inspections

Jan 12, 20261 citation

  • Background Checks for Personnel

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.110

Jan 22, 20252 citations

  • Background Checks for Personnel

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.110

  • Equipment and Materials

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.380(k)

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State record — Illinois DCFS

Last visit
January 12, 2026
On file
2 visits since January 2025 — both cited findings
Fixed?
The latest correction deadline was February 11, 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.

Jan 2026 Monitoring visit 1 finding

Monitoring visit · January 12, 2026

Background Checks for Personnel

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

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 621215 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Jan 2025 Monitoring visit 2 findings

Monitoring visit · January 22, 2025

Background Checks for Personnel

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

Equipment and Materials

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.380(k) · Violation substantiated

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 621215 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

3124933889

Address
4725 N Western Ave
License
license issued (il)

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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 "RAINFOREST LEARNING CENTER" under Provider Name and 60625 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 621215).

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.