Windy City Academy is a licensed daycare and early learning center at 831 E 162nd St in South Holland, Illinois. We care for children from 6 weeks through 12 years, from first bottles to homework help, and plenty of our families stay with us across that whole span.
Founded in 2025 under new ownership, Windy City Academy was built with a simple vision: to create a safe, nurturing, and inspiring environment for the children in our South Holland community. We believe families deserve more than childcare — they deserve a trusted partner dedicated to their child's growth, development, and success.
We provide a safe, nurturing, and stimulating environment where children thrive from infancy through school age. That sentence is on our homepage, and it's also the actual test we hold every classroom to: is this room safe, is this child known and loved here, and is something worth learning happening today?
Every family is welcome at Windy City Academy. We serve children and families of all backgrounds, cultures, abilities, and family structures, and we work with parents to support each child's individual needs. If your child needs extra support, tell us — we will talk it through with you honestly and do our best to make our classrooms work for your family.
The National Association for the Education of Young Children accredits fewer than 10% of early childhood programs nationwide. Earning it means our curriculum, teaching, health, and safety practices were measured against national standards and held up.
This is the highest quality rating the State of Illinois awards to early learning providers. Gold Circle programs are recognized for meeting the state's top benchmarks for learning environments and instruction.
Most of our families come from South Holland and the surrounding south suburbs, including Dolton, Harvey, Lansing, Calumet City, Thornton, Riverdale, Homewood, and Glenwood. We're on E 162nd St (Route 6), minutes from I-80 and I-294, which makes drop-off workable even with a downtown commute. We're also an approved CCAP provider, because a Gold Circle education shouldn't depend on a family's income.
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