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December 2023 by adriana panagakis
The most loving teachers that understand our child! They are patient, amazing, & playful with them. There is this honesty that comes from the director and teachers that makes me feel confident dropping off my toddler in the morning. Highly recommend!!
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August 2023 by Rumya Rao
CCC has been a part of our extended family for the last 5 years. Both of my daughters started preschool at CCC when they were two years old, and completed all of their preschool education there.It has been an amazing experience to be a part of the school and the CCC community. The teachers are loving, kind, and provide a safe and fun learning environment for the children. I am constantly impressed by the variety of activities they have for our children. From sensory bin stimulation, school field trips to local bookstores and museums, and outdoor field days/parades, I know my child is getting the best preschool education in the area. It is an excellently organized program that values education and learning. I feel both of my children were very well prepared for kindergarten after attending CCC.The location of CCC is also ideal. It is located next door to Felger park, so the children have easy access to a beautiful outdoor park without crossing any major streets! It is also located near Hamlin park where the kiddos have their field days. The meals provided for my vegetarian kiddos at school are healthy, organic and varied. The school and staff were amazing during the Covid years and implemented all of the new guidelines without difficulty.Most importantly, the staff, teachers, and two directors that have been there during my time are excellent. It is clear they prioritize the health and learning of the children over all else. They are patient, kind and offer great advice to handle a variety of situations during the (sometimes) difficult toddler years. I am so grateful for their care, and will miss them when our youngest moves on to Kindergarten. I cannot recommend this school enough!
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July 2023 by abra siegel
I very strongly recommend Children’s Creative Center. Our daughter attended Children’s Creative Center for over one year, from age 2 to age 3, she just left at the end of June 2023. She would still be there if she hadn’t gotten a spot at the CPD summer day camp and CPS prek with her big sister. The teachers were tireless and cheerful and loving. They took education seriously but also play and our daughter made good friends there. The teachers were also incredibly patient as we went through potty training with our daughter which was challenging. She had daily accidents, often multiple accidents, and the teachers patiently worked with us to help her learn. The administration was also very professional and flexible, just lovely all around. We miss it!
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June 2023 by Ashley Catala
As an individual who has been involved with the CCC family for nearly five years, I can speak firsthand about Children’s Creative Center and its wonderful school community. The center offers a wide range of enrichment classes and opportunities for learning to make their classrooms a positive learning environment for all students. The primary teachers and administration value their families that are a part of the school and are passionate about ECE.
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June 2023 by Carmen Ruiz
As the director of the Children’s Creative Center, I can't emphasize enough how loving and professional the teachers are. Every day children are surrounded by teachers that care and love what they are doing! As a parent, you'll feel confident about bringing your children to school every day!
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May 2023 by Greg Gibbs
CCC was the weekday home for our two young boys from 2018 to 2021. My wife and I always felt comfortable knowing our kids were bing nurtured, nourish, inspired, and loved by the CCC staff. We miss those days! I highly recommend it for all eligible ages. :)
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May 2023 by Tania Pamela
Our experience at CCC has been exceptional! The director is open minded and thinks outside the box to make a successful educational experience for the students. And the teachers are truly invested in my children’s education and their growth as learners.
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April 2023 by Kristen Van Putten
This was my 3 year olds first experience at a daycare or preschool because of COVID and we've loved it. The teachers love the students and are invested in their growth everyday. Great communication and a wonderful environment for 2-5 year olds!
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February 2023 by Manuel Fuentes
Just love it!
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July 2022 by AM R.
My family has been part of the CCC community since October 2016 - with both our children attending from the time they were two. Our experience in each classroom (2's, preschool, pre-k) has remained consistent throughout the years - nurturing teachers, play based curriculum that instills a love of learning and encourages exploration, a focus on teaching values like kindness, and so much more. Our children have always loved going to school every single day. Our now 2nd grader still wants to stop back to visit her favorite teacher Ms Andie. Their location next to a park can't be beat. I couldn't recommend Children Creative Center more!
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July 2022 by Tiffany W.
We have been at CCC since our son turned 2 years old. We have been very happy here. A smaller size (but plenty of room for the kids) with just three classrooms means that you get to know and see all the teachers and even the owner, Mark. Clearly caring teachers, great enrichment (we love Ms. Dee for yoga and Mr. JD for music, and the pics when they have the forest preserve visits and other fun stuff are too cute). We also like the monthly international themes and other little touches throughout the year. Overall great communication through the app and annual parent-teacher conferences. In the younger years you get a ton of details about potty, food, etc., and when they transition it's focused more on whether there were issues. But we recently had trouble at home with both potty and sleep so both times we asked them to monitor and report even the good stuff in the app so we had a full picture, and the teachers were wonderful about doing that and provided extra information and support. We've also been happy with how they've handled COVID procedures. We love that the kids can go literally right next door to Fellger and play for outside time. We feel very fortunate to have found CCC which is a little diamond in the rough.
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August 2021 by Greg Gibbs
We couldn’t have been happier with our experience. Highly recommended to anyone looking for child-care and peace-of-mind.
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August 2021 by Lisabeth M.
CCC has the most caring, loving, and nurturing teachers I have ever met. They really care for your children and the ratio of teacher to student is unlike anything I've seen in any other daycare. They have 3 teachers ( 1 Lead) to a class of 17/18 usually. My daughter started in the Blue Room (3's) and was incredibly shy and Ms Ashley really helped her feel comfortable. Additionally, Ms Andie in the Green Room (Pre-K) was so wonderful and helped her get into an RGC program in CPS. But all of the teachers are amazing and your child will definitely feel loved.
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March 2021 by Maria C.
Update: FYI Ms. Halle is no longer there. I suspected this would mean a culture change for the worse, which was confirmed when I called to see if we could put our son back in for the fall (we took him out when the pandemic hit), and nobody called me back for 4 days. The owner emailed me and called about the Yelp review but didn't mention my son. Also I think it's super unethical that they were using Miss Halle's image on the website without her permission, which is misleading, but they've taken it down now that I wrote about it (I have edited this review and changed it from one star since last week to add information about how much I respect the teachers in order to be fair about my experience with the school overall versus just the owner). No one is in charge but the owner right now so hopefully they will get a new Director in there. If they don't I would worry that the negative culture change will affect whether the good teachers stay. If the teachers do stay, they are incredible and I could give no higher recommendation. Miss Kinga as lead teacher of the twos classroom is phenomenal and my son will always remember Ms. Liz as long as he lives. I saw Miss Mónica taking the kids around the neighborhood without a mask so I don't know what that's about (Ms. Kinga wore one). Misses Ashley, Carina and Jasmin in the next classroom up (3-4) are amazing too but we spent less time with them because of the pandemic. I've heard amazing things about Miss Andie as well as lead teacher of the pre-K room, Ms. Halle chose her personally and spoke very highly of her and we were looking forward to being in her classroom until all this happened and my husband and I having had the interactions I've had with the owner just don't feel good about the school right now. That might change if they get a new Director, I just hope they are not trying to ride on the coattails of good reviews while not actually doing the work to make the school what it was under Ms. Halle.
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December 2020 by Laura L.
We loved this school! A move to a different area of Chicagoland meant our son didn't get to finish out the year in the Green room. We were so sad to leave. CCC is the only school we have been a part of and WOW did they set the bar high While we were here, we were a part of Yellow, Blue, and Green rooms and loved Ms Kinga, Ms Ashley and Ms Andie - as well as all of the other teachers and Ms Halle (and Taco.) Beyond the awesome teachers and staff, this school was great at communicating, had a fun and impressive curriculum, and just generally supported us whenever/however we needed it. I cannot say enough about how much we appreciate them and the great experience we had there. We will miss them!!
