Illinois

Grade B

70/100 points · Ranked #11 of 51 jurisdictions. Agency: Illinois DCFS, Bureau of Child Care Licensing.

Score breakdown

Record depth

About 17 years of inspection history publicly retrievable.

25/25

Downloadable data

Bulk export, open data, or equivalent machine-readable dump available.

20/20

Severity levels

State does not publish a usable severity/risk tier for citations.

0/15

Complaints published

Complaints are not published (or not present) in the public feed.

0/15

% with any inspection

91.5% of providers have at least one inspection on file (7,819 of 8,546).

15/15

Access friction

No CAPTCHA, IP block, or auth wall on the primary public records path.

10/10

Sunshine roster CSV plus per-facility compliance history since 2010; no severity tiers.

Does well: Deep monitoring history with a downloadable roster.

Where it falls short: No per-violation severity classification; citations are per standard.

Browse Illinois providers on KinderFax. Official portal: Sunshine Day Care Provider Lookup. Download the national CSV: transparency-scorecard.csv.