Verify a Illinois Teacher (state certificate) license

liveIL Childcare / Teacher Licensing · profession key teacher

Live. We query the board directly for every check and the nightly canary is passing.

How Illinois Teacher (state certificate) license verification works

A Teacher (state certificate) in Illinois is licensed by the IL Childcare / Teacher Licensing. PrimaryCheck looks the license up live at the board's public verification system (board lookup) by license number, or by name when no number is supplied. The record the board publishes is captured as evidence, hashed, and rendered into a proof PDF.

Fields returned for this board: license_number name license_type status flags address city county zip day_capacity night_capacity day_age_range night_age_range languages.

Board note: childcare_provider via IL-DCFS-SUNSHINE: DCFS Sunshine 'Day Care Provider Lookup' (ASP.NET WebForms + DevExpress grid). The grid's own search is a DevExpress callback, but the Export button is a plain WebForms POST (GET page → POST with ASPxProviderName + $State JSON, City/County/Zip blank, ASPxButtonExport=Export) answering the filtered grid as 'Daycare Providers.csv' (ProviderID = the 6-digit licence/permit number, DoingBusinessAs, Street, City, County, Zip, Phone, FacilityType DCH/GDC/DCC, Day/Night age range, languages, Day/Night capacity, Status). Name filter = case-insensitive contains; a blank name with the session cookie exports the whole roster (8,506 rows 2026-11-04; cached 1 h, used to resolve a claimed id the name export missed); without the cookie the POST answers a 'Security Exception' page. Statuses: License issued / Permit issued / Amended permit / Pending renewal / Pending address change (active), Pending revocation (active + flag), Refuse to Renew / Surrendered / Revoke License (inactive + flag). Homes (DCH/GDC) are in the person's name → verified on own name, discrepancy for another person; centers (DCC) print no director → ambiguous_match. No expiry, no compliance history exported (Monitoring Report Search is a separate DevExpress grid, not used). Teachers are ISBE ELIS (not covered).

What a Teacher (state certificate) license check returns

Field check	Passes when
`license_number`	Equal to the board's number, ignoring prefix and leading zeros
`name`	Last name or declared alias matches; first name exact or nickname
`license_type`	The record is a Teacher (state certificate) license, strictly (no near-miss types)
`status`	The board shows an active status; probation is active with a flag
`expires`	Expiration is on or after today, where the board publishes it
`disciplinary_actions`	Recorded and flagged with any order documents; never silently dropped

Verdicts: verified, discrepancy, not_found, unable_to_verify (with a reason), pending. See how verdicts are decided.

Verify a Illinois Teacher (state certificate) license by API

POST https://api.primarycheck.com/v1/verifications
{
  "person": { "firstName": "…", "lastName": "…" },
  "claims": [
    { "type": "license", "state": "IL", "profession": "teacher", "number": "…" }
  ],
  "purpose": "employment",
  "consent": { "consentId": "cons_…" }
}

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