Plainfield · Licensed center
The Children's Courtyard
- Large center, licensed for 161 children.
- A Children's Courtyard center. The chain is owned by American Securities, a private-equity firm.
- Shortlist has found no website for it yet.
What the state has found
The state cited rules at 2 of its 5 licensing inspections since December 2022.
Of the 130 Chicago-area centers with 5 licensing inspections, 8% had rules cited at 2 of them, as this center did. 45% had rules cited at all 5.
Licensing inspections
Nov 8, 20231 citation
Personnel Records
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(2)
Dec 15, 20222 citations
Personnel Records
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(2)
Staffing Structure
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.90(a)(1)
Read every record and the state’s reports
Across The Children's Courtyard's 5 locations in the Chicago area, it cited something at 66% of 32 visits.
State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- November 10, 2025
- On file
- 5 visits since December 2022 — 3 cited nothing
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was December 8, 2023. 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.
Nov 2023 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · November 8, 2023
Personnel Records
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(2) · Violation substantiated
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 604084 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Dec 2022 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · December 15, 2022
Staffing Structure
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.90(a)(1) · Violation substantiated
Personnel Records
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(2) · Violation substantiated
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 604084 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
- 2218 S Route 59
- License
- license issued (il)
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State record
From Illinois DCFS’s published reports, last checked October 10, 2026.
Details
- Phone, Address, License — Checked August 2026 sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov/…/ProviderLookup.aspx. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "THE CHILDREN'S COURTYARD" under Provider Name and 60586 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 604084).
- Who runs it — Checked October 2026 childrenscourtyard.com
- Who runs it — Checked October 2026 american-securities.com
The Children’s Courtyard is one of Learning Care Group's brands. The private-equity firm American Securities lists Learning Care Group among its current companies, an investment it made in 2014. american-securities.com
Large means the biggest quarter of Chicago-area’s 1,949 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 119 to 487 children. Small is 8 to 48; medium is 49 to 118.