Chicago · Licensed center
Stepping Stone Nursery School
- Medium Montessori center, licensed for 97 children.
What the state has found
The state cited rules at 3 of its 4 licensing inspections since November 2020.
Of the 123 Chicago-area centers with 4 licensing inspections, 22% had rules cited at 3 of them, as this center did. 59% had rules cited at all 4, 2% at none.
Licensing inspections
Mar 25, 20241 citation
Personnel Records
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)
Mar 15, 20232 citations
Personnel Records
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)
Nutrition and Meal Service
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.330(b)
Nov 13, 20201 citation
Personnel Records
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(2)
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State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- March 25, 2024
- On file
- 4 visits since November 2020 — 1 cited nothing
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was April 24, 2024. 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 2024 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · March 25, 2024
Personnel Records
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a) · Violation substantiated
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 575592 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Mar 2023 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · March 15, 2023
Personnel Records
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a) · Violation corrected
Nutrition and Meal Service
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.330(b) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 575592 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Nov 2020 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · November 13, 2020
Personnel Records
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(2) · Violation substantiated
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 575592 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Openings, child care subsidies, cost, ratios and staff, and sick and biting policies aren’t on this page.
How they teach
Montessori
“Our authentic Montessori programs for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers provide children with the tools they need to grow themselves.”
A day here
- Outdoors
- Daily nature experiences with plenty of unstructured outdoor play
- Schedule
- full-time, part-time, half-day, before/after school care, drop-in, flexible care (FlexiPass)
Details
- Website
- cadence-education.com
- Address
- 2750 W Lawrence Ave
- License
- pending renewal application (rn)
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How they teach
- Approach — Checked August 2026 cadence-education.com
State record
From Illinois DCFS’s published reports, last checked October 10, 2026.
A day here
- Outdoors — Checked August 2026 cadence-education.com
- Schedule — Checked August 2026 cadence-education.com
Details
- Phone, Address, License — Checked July 2026 sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov/…/ProviderLookup.aspx. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "STEPPING STONE NURSERY SCHOOL" under Provider Name and 60625 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 575592).
- Website — Checked August 2026 cadence-education.com
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.