Chicago · Licensed center

Rise Up Early Childhood

What the state has found

The state cited rules at all 4 of its licensing inspections since October 2019.

Of the 123 Chicago-area centers with 4 licensing inspections, 59% had rules cited at all 4, as this center did. 2% had none cited.

Licensing inspections

Mar 9, 20262 citations

  • Personnel Records

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)

  • Medications

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.360(e)

Mar 11, 20241 citation

  • Personnel Records

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)

Mar 29, 20231 citation

  • Personnel Records

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)

Oct 17, 20195 citations

  • Organization and Administration

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.70(i)

  • Enrollment and Discharge Procedures

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(d)

  • Health Requirements for Children

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(4)

  • Enrollment and Discharge Procedures

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(g)

1 more from this inspection

  • Personnel Records

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

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State record — Illinois DCFS

Last visit
March 9, 2026
On file
4 visits since October 2019 — all of them cited findings
Fixed?
The latest correction deadline was April 8, 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.

Mar 2026 Monitoring visit 2 findings

Monitoring visit · March 9, 2026

Personnel Records

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a) · Violation substantiated

Medications

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.360(e) · Violation substantiated

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 576154 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Mar 2024 Monitoring visit 1 finding

Monitoring visit · March 11, 2024

Personnel Records

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a) · Violation substantiated

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 576154 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Mar 2023 Monitoring visit 1 finding

Monitoring visit · March 29, 2023

Personnel Records

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 576154 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Oct 2019 Monitoring visit 5 findings

Monitoring visit · October 17, 2019

Enrollment and Discharge Procedures

2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(d) through (g) · Violation substantiated

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(d) · 407.250(g)

Organization and Administration

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.70(i) · Violation substantiated

Personnel Records

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(1) · Violation substantiated

Health Requirements for Children

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(4) · Violation substantiated

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 576154 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

7738183939

Address
6921 N Ridge Blvd
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 "RISE UP EARLY CHILDHOOD" under Provider Name and 60645 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 576154).

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.