Richton Park · Licensed center

First Step Child Care Inc

What the state has found

The state cited rules at 1 of its 2 licensing inspections since May 2025.

Of the 89 Chicago-area centers with 2 licensing inspections, 26% had rules cited at 1 of them, as this center did. 61% had rules cited at both, 13% at neither.

Licensing inspections

Sep 12, 2025No rules cited
May 19, 20253 citations

  • Special Requirements for Infants and Toddlers

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.210(e)

  • Guidance and Discipline

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.270(c)(6)

  • General Requirements for Personnel

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(a)

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State record — Illinois DCFS

Last visit
September 12, 2025
On file
2 visits since May 2025 — 1 cited nothing
Fixed?
Correction was due June 24, 2025. 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.

Sep 2025 Compliance monitoring visit nothing cited
May 2025 Monitoring visit 3 findings

Monitoring visit · May 19, 2025

General Requirements for Personnel

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

Special Requirements for Infants and Toddlers

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.210(e) · Violation corrected

Guidance and Discipline

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.270(c)(6) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 629400 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

7087473000

Address
22025 Governors Hwy
License
license issued (il)

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All checked August 2026.

State record

From Illinois DCFS’s published reports, last checked October 10, 2026.

Details

  • Phone, Address, License sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov/…/ProviderLookup.aspx. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "FIRST STEP CHILD CARE INC" under Provider Name and 60471 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 629400).

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