Evanston · Licensed center
Warren W. Cherry Preschool
- Medium center, licensed for 116 children.
- Run by a nonprofit. A board oversees it, and there are no owners taking profit.
- 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 April 2013.
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
May 13, 20241 citation
General Requirements for Personnel
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(f)
Apr 18, 20236 citations
General Requirements for Personnel
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(f)
Personnel Records
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(1)
General Requirements for Personnel
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(5)
Qualifications for Child Care Director
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.130(m)
2 more from this inspection
A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, CCASEC4.
A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, CCASEC7.
Apr 13, 20211 citation
General Requirements for Personnel
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(f)
Apr 17, 20181 citation
General Requirements for Personnel
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(f)
Apr 9, 20131 citation
General Requirements for Personnel
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(f)
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- May 13, 2024
- On file
- 6 visits since April 2013 — 1 cited nothing
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was June 12, 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 2024 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · May 13, 2024
General Requirements for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(f) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 190922 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Apr 2023 Monitoring visit 6 findings
Monitoring visit · April 18, 2023
General Requirements for Personnel
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(5) through (f) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(5) · 407.100(f)
Personnel Records
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(1) · Violation corrected
Qualifications for Child Care Director
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.130(m) · Violation corrected
A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, CCASEC4.
0 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code · Violation corrected
A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, CCASEC7.
0 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 190922 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Apr 2021 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · April 13, 2021
General Requirements for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(f) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 190922 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Apr 2018 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · April 17, 2018
General Requirements for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(f) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 190922 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Apr 2013 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · April 9, 2013
General Requirements for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(f) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 190922 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
- 1418 Lake Street
- License
- pending renewal application (rn)
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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 "WARREN W. CHERRY PRESCHOOL" under Provider Name and 60201 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 190922).
- Who runs it — Checked October 2026 projects.propublica.org
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.