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Located in North Side Chicago, Illinois, near Irving Park and the Lake, Smart Love Preschool offers a play-based curriculum within an eco-friendly environment as five day or half day (morning and afternoon) care programs for toddlers and children of 3-5 years. Families from Lakeview, Ravenswood, Irving Park, Avondale and surrounding Northside communities can be sure of the strength of our Smart Love philosophy which has been successfully applied by trained professionals in a broad range of settings for over three decades.

We have created a unique and inspiring toddler program involving spacious motor play, and lively group times designed especially for your child's optimal development. In our preschool section theme-based, age appropriate content is taught in an engaging way that stimulates children's natural curiosity about the world around them and incorporates early math and literacy skills. The Smart Love Preschool provides a setting that promotes young children's long-term academic success by strengthening their social-emotional health and inspiring their intellectual creativity through play-based learning.


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Smart Love Preschool is housed in a beautiful historic mansion on tree-lined Buena Avenue in the Hutchinson Street Historic District on the North Side. The campus includes the main house, coach house and garden, surrounded by a wrought iron fence. Smart Love Preschool will occupy the main floor with offices and parent/infant and parent/toddler programs on the second floor. Preschoolers will be able to enjoy the outdoor setting, tend a children's garden and hear stories in the home's beautiful library.


School / Office Address: 800 W. Buena
Chicago
Illinois
USA
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