Joliet · Licensed center

Building A Brighter Future

What the state has found

The state cited rules at both of its licensing inspections since December 2025.

Of the 90 Chicago-area centers with 2 licensing inspections, 61% had rules cited at both, as this center did. 13% had none cited.

Licensing inspections

Feb 18, 20266 citations

  • Personnel Records

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(3)

  • Organization and Administration

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.70(e)(1)

  • General Requirements for Personnel

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(f)

  • Organization and Administration

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.70(e)(2)

2 more from this inspection

  • Organization and Administration

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.70(e)(3)

  • Nutrition and Meal Service

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.330(g)(1)

Dec 18, 20251 citation

  • Health Requirements for Children

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)

Read every record and the state’s reports

State record — Illinois DCFS

Last visit
February 18, 2026
On file
2 visits since December 2025 — both cited findings
Fixed?
The latest correction deadline was March 18, 2026. Illinois DCFS does not publish whether it was made.
Most serious
Illinois DCFS does not publish a severity level for a citation, so there is no most-serious to name.

Illinois DCFS cites each subsection of a rule separately, so one audit of a filing cabinet can produce ten citations. It publishes the rule’s title and a correction deadline, but no description of what was observed.

Feb 2026 Monitoring visit 6 findings

Monitoring visit · February 18, 2026

Organization and Administration

3 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.70(e)(1) through (3) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.70(e)(1) · 407.70(e)(2) · 407.70(e)(3)

General Requirements for Personnel

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(f) · Violation corrected

Personnel Records

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(3) · Violation corrected

Nutrition and Meal Service

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.330(g)(1) · Violation corrected on site

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 642578 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Dec 2025 Monitoring visit 1 finding

Monitoring visit · December 18, 2025

Health Requirements for Children

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 642578 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Openings, child care subsidies, cost, hours and late pickup, teaching approach, ratios and staff, a typical day, and sick and biting policies aren’t on this page.

Details

7086034046

Address
915 W Jefferson St
License
license issued (il)

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All checked August 2026.

State record

From Illinois DCFS’s published reports, last checked October 9, 2026.

Details

  • Phone, Address, License sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov/…/ProviderLookup.aspx. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "BUILDING A BRIGHTER FUTURE" under Provider Name and 60435 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 642578).

Small means the smallest quarter of Chicago-area’s 1,949 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 8 to 48 children. Medium is 49 to 118; large is 119 to 487.