Waukegan · Licensed center
Sweet Tarts & Sweethearts Academy
- Medium center, licensed for 92 children.
- Shortlist has found no website for it yet.
What the state has found
The state cited rules at 2 of its 9 licensing inspections since October 2019.
Of the 122 Chicago-area centers with 9 licensing inspections, 1% had rules cited at 2 of them, as this center did. 34% had rules cited at all 9.
Licensing inspections
Jun 6, 20241 citation
Daily Arrival and Departure of Children
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.260(d)
Oct 22, 20193 citations
Daily Arrival and Departure of Children
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.260(f)
Guidance and Discipline
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.270(a)
A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, FHSEC305.
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- August 5, 2025
- On file
- 9 visits since October 2019 — 7 cited nothing
- Fixed?
- Correction was due November 22, 2019. 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.
Jun 2024 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · June 6, 2024
Daily Arrival and Departure of Children
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.260(d) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 560622 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Oct 2019 Monitoring visit 3 findings
Monitoring visit · October 22, 2019
Daily Arrival and Departure of Children
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.260(f) · Violation corrected
Guidance and Discipline
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.270(a) · Violation corrected
A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, FHSEC305.
0 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 560622 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
- Address
- 1605 Garden Pl
- 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 "SWEET TARTS & SWEETHEARTS ACADEMY" under Provider Name and 60085 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 560622).
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.