New to the Area - Need Child Care Advice

Welcome to Oak Park! It's really a wonderful community. But it is hard to find a center spot in or near Oak Park for a younger child. That's how we ended up using licensed home daycare. Some of the home daycares are closer to centers in size/staffing/enrichment options, and some are more like homes. The West Suburban Home Daycare Association can give you referrals if you're interested (they used to have a website, but all I can find offhand is this: ____@____.com or call ###-###-####.) Or email me if you aren't able to reach them and I can pull together some information for you on daycares that I know of.

There's also a daycare and schools referral guide for the area. Of course I can't find mine now that I'm looking for it, but I think the visitor's bureau might have some.

K.,
I have a small home daycare in Oak park if interested in more info please e-mail me back.
C.

We are north of Oak Park, in Chicago. We take our daughter to a wonderful home day care that is really large for a home daycare but a little smaller than a center. I think they currently have 8 infants on the main floor and I don't know how may older kids (they switch at about 2). It is called Granny's Corner and it is on Natoma just north of North Ave. If you are going to be on the north side of Oak Park it will be very close.

Let me know if you would like any more information.

D.
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You can always go to www.naeyc.org and do a zip code search. This will populate a list of accredited day care facilities within your search parameters.

My daughter went to Rainforest from the time she was 3 months until she was almost three. We LOVE them. I'm glad you got into Building Blocks but if anything opens at Rainforest I HIGHLY recommend them.

Drop me a reply at jacqwolk at hotmail dot com if you have questions.