Child care in Illinois

Every one on the record by city and county: open a place for its list, which you can filter by what each record says.

8,502 child care providers in 798 cities and towns and 102 counties. From the Illinois Department of Early Childhood (IDEC), Child Care Licensing, on the DCFS Sunshine site: Sunshine Provider Lookup: its “Daycare Providers” export of the providers it lists, read each day.

What Illinois’s list covers

8,504 of the 8,659 providers Illinois counts: the state’s export leaves out 155. Illinois’s Annual Childcare Report gives only its total, so which kinds those are can’t be told.

The biggest cities and towns

By how many child care providers each holds

The biggest counties

By how many child care providers each holds

Every city, town and county, A to Z

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Yorkville12

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Illinois Department of Early Childhood (IDEC), Child Care Licensing, on the DCFS Sunshine site, Sunshine Provider Lookup: its “Daycare Providers” export of the providers it lists, read each day. Checked Nov 2, 2026. Updated daily.