Plainfield · Licensed center

The Apple Tree Pre-School

What the state has found

The state cited rules at 2 of its 3 licensing inspections since November 2023.

Of the 105 Chicago-area centers with 3 licensing inspections, 23% had rules cited at 2 of them, as this center did. 58% had rules cited at all 3, 10% at none.

Licensing inspections

May 9, 2025No rules cited
Sep 11, 20242 citations

  • Background Checks for Personnel

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.110

  • General Requirements for Personnel

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(f)

Nov 13, 20233 citations

  • Personnel Records

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(3)

  • Health Requirements for Children

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)

  • Nutrition and Meal Service

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.330(g)(2)

Read every record and the state’s reports

State record — Illinois DCFS

Last visit
May 9, 2025
On file
3 visits since November 2023 — 1 cited nothing
Fixed?
The latest correction deadline was October 11, 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.

May 2025 Compliance monitoring visit nothing cited
Sep 2024 Monitoring visit 2 findings

Monitoring visit · September 11, 2024

General Requirements for Personnel

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(f) · 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 580271 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Nov 2023 Monitoring visit 3 findings

Monitoring visit · November 13, 2023

Personnel Records

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(3) · Violation corrected

Health Requirements for Children

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

Nutrition and Meal Service

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.330(g)(2) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 580271 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

8154369106

Address
24020 W Fraser Rd
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 "THE APPLE TREE PRE-SCHOOL" under Provider Name and 60586 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 580271).

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.