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Top 25 Childcare centers based in Chicago, United States
RevenueBase identified 137 childcare centers headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 2,365 professional contacts across them, including 844 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers childcare centers headquartered in Chicago, United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest childcare centers based in Chicago, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 494 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Illinois Action for Children is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit charitable organization dedicated to quality, accessible early learning and care opportunities for children.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 350 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Start Early (formerly known as the Ounce of Prevention) is a nonprofit public-private partnership advancing quality early learning and care for families with children, before…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 184 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Carole Robertson Center for Learning is a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating, enriching, and empowering children and families through comprehensive child and family…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 165 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Premier Early Childhood Education Partners is focused on improving the lives of children, families, and early childhood professionals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 128 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The mission of Chicago Youth Centers (CYC) is to provide high-quality early learning and out-of-school time enrichment in under-resourced neighborhoods to holistically support…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 87 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “El Hogar works with families to provide support and build relationships to create a strong community.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 66 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Little Green Tree House is four Chicagoland Preschools/early childhood centers that provide care & education for children between 6 weeks and 5 years of age.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 59 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Mary Crane Center promotes the comprehensive early development children aged six weeks to five years, through school-readiness programs, personal enrichment activities, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Black Bear Academy uses a multidisciplinary approach that allows parents to choose educational and/or clinical therapeutic services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Because investments in young children’s early brain development yield the greatest returns for our communities, VOCEL operates innovative child-focused programs that are…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 2003, Bubbles Academy has brought engaging learning experiences to children 0 to 5 years and their parents.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Little Inspirations is a child care center in Hyde Park, Chicago, providing care and early education for children 6 weeks to 6 years old.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We prepare children ages 6 weeks to 6 years old to be critical thinkers, lifelong learners and compassionate citizens.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Nook Daycare is an individualized learning experience where children, parents, and teachers grow together to instill children with a love of learning.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Tiny Giants Early Learning Centers Chicago operate 3 locations in Uptown and North Center.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The purpose of Little Einstein’s Daycare, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Le Village Cowork is on a mission to put working parents, especially women, back to work.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The green bean day school & nursery is a nurturing, eco-friendly environment for children aged six-weeks to six years old” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Little Marvels is Lakeview's newest preschool, providing your child the fun and enriching educational experience that they deserve.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Montessori Gifted Prep is Chicago's premier Montessori preschool providing results-oriented personalized education, flexible extended care options, and fun extracurricular…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Songbird Academy provides a premium boutique childcare service that leverages its top-tier teaching team and its low student teacher ratios to create a highly personalized…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “KIDZ Creative Concepts (KCC) follows a developmental philosophy in order to meet children where they are in all areas of development and encourage their continued growth.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Smarty Pants, we expose children in the Chicago-land Area to important educational practices in the crucial early years of life.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: childcare centers. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names childcare centers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of childcare centers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name childcare centers. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Childcare centers based in Chicago, United States at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for Chicago, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Chicago, over 137 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among childcare centers, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Chicago, United States whose own description of what they do matches “childcare centers”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names childcare centers), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among childcare centers, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Chicago are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 844 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Childcare centers by metro in the United States
- Childcare centers in New York225
- Childcare centers in Chicago137
- Childcare centers in San Francisco95
- Childcare centers in Houston94
- Childcare centers in Philadelphia85
- Childcare centers in Portland75
- Childcare centers in Austin69
- Childcare centers in Seattle67
- Childcare centers in Columbus64
- Childcare centers in Atlanta63
- Childcare centers in Los Angeles61
- Childcare centers in Dallas58
- Childcare centers in Washington56
- Childcare centers in Charlotte54
- Childcare centers in Miami52
- Childcare centers in San Antonio52
- Childcare centers in San Diego50
- Childcare centers in Omaha47
- Childcare centers in Madison46
- Childcare centers in San Jose46
- Childcare centers in Indianapolis42
- Childcare centers in Orlando41
- Childcare centers in Denver39
- Childcare centers in Pittsburgh39
- Childcare centers in Springfield39
- Childcare centers in Louisville37
- Childcare centers in Phoenix37
- Childcare centers in Albuquerque36
- Childcare centers in Bronx35
- Childcare centers in Minneapolis35
- Childcare centers in Richmond35
- Childcare centers in Rochester34
- Childcare centers in Jacksonville33
- Childcare centers in Wilmington33
- Childcare centers in Brooklyn32
- Childcare centers in Kansas City32
- Childcare centers in Raleigh32
- Childcare centers in Sacramento32
- Childcare centers in Arlington31
- Childcare centers in Boston30
- Childcare centers in Lincoln30
- Childcare centers in Nashville30
- Childcare centers in Columbia29
- Childcare centers in Oakland29
- Childcare centers in Cincinnati28
- Childcare centers in Milwaukee28
- Childcare centers in Tampa28
- Childcare centers in Colorado Springs26
- Childcare centers in Canton25
- Childcare centers in Cleveland25
- Childcare centers in Las Vegas25
- Childcare centers in Virginia Beach25
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names childcare centers, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many childcare centers are there based in Chicago, United States?
RevenueBase identified 137 childcare centers headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Illinois Action For Children, headquartered in Chicago, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most childcare centers?
New York leads with 225 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (137) and San Francisco (95).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 844 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 137 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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