Calumet City · Licensed center
Tom Thumb Child Care Center
- Small center, licensed for 46 children.
- Shortlist has found no website for it yet.
What the state has found
The state cited rules at 5 of its 6 licensing inspections since August 2010.
Of the 133 Chicago-area centers with 6 licensing inspections, 29% had rules cited at 5 of them, as this center did. 38% had rules cited at all 6.
Licensing inspections
Aug 4, 20171 citation
Health Requirements for Children
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)
Aug 12, 20162 citations
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(d)
Daily Arrival and Departure of Children
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.260(f)
Aug 28, 20132 citations
Staffing Structure
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.90(b)
General Requirements for Personnel
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(5)
Sep 23, 20111 citation
Health Requirements for Children
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(3)
Aug 23, 20102 citations
Daily Arrival and Departure of Children
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.260(e)(3)
Special Requirements for Infants and Toddlers
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.210(b)
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- August 21, 2026
- On file
- 6 visits since August 2010 — 1 cited nothing
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was September 1, 2017. 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.
Aug 2017 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · August 4, 2017
Health Requirements for Children
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 020732 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Aug 2016 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · August 12, 2016
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(d) · Violation corrected
Daily Arrival and Departure of Children
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.260(f) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 020732 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Aug 2013 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · August 28, 2013
Staffing Structure
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.90(b) · Violation corrected
General Requirements for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(5) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 020732 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Sep 2011 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · September 23, 2011
Health Requirements for Children
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(3) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 020732 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Aug 2010 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · August 23, 2010
Special Requirements for Infants and Toddlers
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.210(b) · Violation corrected
Daily Arrival and Departure of Children
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.260(e)(3) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 020732 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
- 410 154th Place
- 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 "TOM THUMB CHILD CARE CENTER" under Provider Name and 60409 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 020732).
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.