Family Focus offers a comprehensive preschool program promotes school readiness, and provides nutritious meals and free medical and dental services. The teachers are accredited, and their seven state-of-the-art classrooms are filled with educational toys and learning tools, featuring age-appropriate centers for science, literacy, block building and construction, dramatic play and clay, paint, sand, and water exploration.

The Salvation Army Head Start and Early Head Start programs give at-risk children the same chances every child deserves. They provide comprehensive services to low-income children and families, including healthy meals and snacks, assistance with medical and dental care, educational field trips, and support services to the family. Parent involvement is encouraged and children with disabilities are welcomed.

Stickney Township offers low-cost Summer Fun and Pre-K. Programs are offered at various locations and in various age groups.

The Goddard School's preschool classrooms are where children start their journeys into a cooperative learning environment where they can discover interests and learn in a more structured setting.

Teddy Bear Day Care offers a Head Start program for those who meet the eligibility criteria.

Holy Family Ministries offers an early childhood education program for children ages 3-5. This is a full-day, year-round program.

Schaumburg Park District has preschool centers are located at Pat Shephard Center, Meineke Recreation Center, and Bock Neighborhood Center.

Chicago Youth Centers (CYC) - Centro Nuestro Child Development Center engages children early and works with families so children enter kindergarten ready and eager to learn and successfully transition through all phases of their academic experience.

Sonnets Academy offers a play-based curriculum designed to refine and develop individual strengths for children between 2 and 5 years old. The 2-year-olds are in a separate classroom from the 3 and 5-year-olds.

Shining Star Child Development offers Head Start, a Federal program for preschool children from low-income families.

Montessori Foundations of Chicago offers a program prioritizing the developmental needs of children who are between two and three years old, particularly in the areas of independence, sense of order, language expansion, refinement of movement, socialization, and toilet learning.

Niles Park District's Bright Beginnings Preschool provides a wide variety of daily activities to expand and develop each child's physical, creative, cognitive, social, and emotional growth.

Breakthrough Urban Ministries' Breakthrough Beginners program provides instruction to young learners (ages 2-5) in core subjects including literacy, math, science, and social studies. The program aims to develop emergent skills that are essential to reading and writing, using creative activities and hands-on exploration that correspond to developmental stages and Illinois Learning and Development Standards. The program offers full-day preschool, with care before and after the program to accommodate the schedules of families. When a child exits the program to kindergarten, Breakthrough emphasizes a smooth transition through parent partnerships and collaboration with various local schools.

Home Sweet Home provides 2 to 36-month-olds day and evening childcare that emphasizes education, nutrition, and family values.

Shining Star Child Development serves infants and toddlers. Early Head Start provides early, continuous, intensive, and comprehensive child development and family support services to low-income families.

The Salvation Army Head Start and Early Head Start programs give at-risk children the same chances every child deserves. They provide comprehensive services to low-income children and families, including healthy meals and snacks, assistance with medical and dental care, educational field trips, and support services to the family. Parent involvement is encouraged and children with disabilities are welcomed.

KinderCare provides various social and educational programs for children aged 6 weeks through 12 years old across its many locations.

Little Angels Learning Center of Chicago, Inc. provides preschool and kindergarten to ages two to five.

This program provides full-work day, year-round care and education for preschoolers aged 3 to 5 years old. The program is welcome to both English and Spanish speakers. Families with enrolled children have access to a monthly free diaper drive hosted by the agency.

El Hogar Del Niño (now a part of Brightpoint) provides an Early Head Start and Prevention Initiative Home Visiting Program with individualized services for pregnant women, infants, and toddlers to promote the school readiness of young children from low-income families. Women who are expecting or have children from birth to 3 years old are eligible to participate and obtain support to enhance their child's cognitive, social, and emotional development.

Park Ridge Park District offers structured programming for 2, 3, and 4-year-olds that emphasizes socialization and self-expression through manipulatives, art, music, fine and gross motor skills, and hands-on activities. Social-emotional development (not academics) is the main focus for the 2 and 3-year-old programs. The 4-year-old program introduces kindergarten readiness concepts through play-based activities.

First Start Children's Academy South offers Early Head Start programming that provides services to children between 6 weeks and 2 years old, and their families, who have incomes at or below the federal poverty level. The development program provides services for children with a focus on education, socio-emotional development, physical and mental health, and nutrition.

El Valor's Children's Programs support families through seamless, comprehensive programming that fosters creative and innovative child development services, parental involvement, multiculturalism, and respect. Children's development, including children with special needs, is strengthened through relationship building, community partnerships, professional leadership, strong management systems, and family advocacy. El Valor works with more than 4,000 children under the age of five, 20% of whom are diagnosed with a developmental or physical disability.

Our Lady of Guadalupe School provides formal education focusing on cognitive and social development for young children.

Bright Visions Learning Academy provides formal education focusing on cognitive and social development for young children.