Affordable, high-quality child care is often
difficult for parents to find. Illinois is no exception. Child Care Aware reports that the
average monthly price of full-time child care was
$821 per child in child care or 15% of the median
household income for a family with children under
6 in 2020.1
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
notes that access and affordability issues long
pre-date COVID and are due to “generations of
underinvestment in the care economy.”2
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