Yorkville · Licensed center
The Children's Courtyard
- Medium center, licensed for 81 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 both of its licensing inspections since June 2025.
Of the 90 Chicago-area centers with 2 licensing inspections, 61% had rules cited at both, as this center did. 13% had none cited.
Licensing inspections
May 1, 20265 citations
Background Checks for Personnel
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.110
Personnel Records
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(2)
Special Requirements for Infants and Toddlers
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.210(i)
Nutrition and Meal Service
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.330(b)
1 more from this inspection
Outdoor Play Area
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.390(i)(2)
Jun 23, 20252 citations
Outdoor Play Area
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.390(m)
Health Requirements for Children
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(5)
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- May 1, 2026
- On file
- 2 visits since June 2025 — both cited findings
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was June 1, 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.
May 2026 Monitoring visit 5 findings
Monitoring visit · May 1, 2026
Background Checks for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.110 · Violation substantiated
Personnel Records
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(2) · Violation substantiated
Special Requirements for Infants and Toddlers
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.210(i) · Violation substantiated
Nutrition and Meal Service
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.330(b) · Violation substantiated
Outdoor Play Area
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.390(i)(2) · Violation substantiated
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 638283 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Jun 2025 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · June 23, 2025
Health Requirements for Children
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(5) · Violation corrected
Outdoor Play Area
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.390(m) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 638283 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
- 708 E Veterans Pkwy
- 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 60560 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 638283).
- 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
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.