Oswego · Licensed center

Smart Beginnings Of Oswego Inc.

What the state has found

The state cited rules at 3 of its 5 licensing inspections since January 2025.

Of the 130 Chicago-area centers with 5 licensing inspections, 13% had rules cited at 3 of them, as this center did. 45% had rules cited at all 5.

Licensing inspections

Aug 3, 2026No rules cited
Apr 23, 20265 citations

  • Program Requirements for All Ages

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.200(a)

  • Organization and Administration

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.70(a)

  • Staffing Structure

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.90(f)

  • General Requirements for Personnel

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(b)(2)

1 more from this inspection

  • Enrollment and Discharge Procedures

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(a)

Jan 9, 2026No rules cited
Aug 7, 20259 citations

  • Staffing Structure

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.90(a)(3)

  • Grouping and Staffing

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.190(d)(2)

  • Grouping and Staffing

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.190(d)(3)

  • Grouping and Staffing

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.190(d)(4)

5 more from this inspection

  • Provisions Pertaining to the License

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.60(g)

  • Background Checks for Personnel

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.110

  • Staffing Structure

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.90(a)(2)

  • Grouping and Staffing

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.190(d)(1)

  • Organization and Administration

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.70(a)

Jan 30, 20252 citations

  • Organization and Administration

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.70(i)

  • Health Requirements for Children

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(3)

Read every record and the state’s reports

State record — Illinois DCFS

Last visit
August 3, 2026
On file
5 visits since January 2025 — 2 cited nothing
Fixed?
The latest correction deadline was May 31, 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.

Aug 2026 Compliance monitoring visit nothing cited
Apr 2026 Monitoring visit 5 findings

Monitoring visit · April 23, 2026

Organization and Administration

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

Staffing Structure

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.90(f) · Violation corrected

General Requirements for Personnel

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(b)(2) · Violation corrected

Program Requirements for All Ages

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.200(a) · Violation corrected

Enrollment and Discharge Procedures

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(a) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 637115 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Jan 2026 Compliance monitoring visit nothing cited
Aug 2025 Monitoring visit 9 findings

Monitoring visit · August 7, 2025

Grouping and Staffing

4 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.190(d)(1) through (4) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.190(d)(1) · 407.190(d)(2) · 407.190(d)(3) · 407.190(d)(4)

Staffing Structure

2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.90(a)(2) through (3) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.90(a)(2) · 407.90(a)(3)

Provisions Pertaining to the License

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.60(g) · Violation corrected

Organization and Administration

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

Background Checks for Personnel

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

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 637115 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 30, 2025

Organization and Administration

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

Health Requirements for Children

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(3) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 637115 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

6304537827

Address
750 5th St
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 "SMART BEGINNINGS OF OSWEGO INC." under Provider Name and 60543 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 637115).

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.