Chicago · Licensed center

First Step Learning 2, Inc

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

Jan 29, 202611 citations

  • Physical Plant/Indoor Space

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(f)(2)

  • Organization and Administration

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.70(e)

  • Enrollment and Discharge Procedures

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(i)(2)

  • Background Checks for Personnel

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.110

7 more from this inspection

  • Physical Plant/Indoor Space

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(d)(3)

  • Guidance and Discipline

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.270(a)

  • Special Requirements for Infants and Toddlers

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.210(f)(10)

  • Personnel Records

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

  • General Requirements for Personnel

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(f)

  • Napping and Sleeping

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.350(b)(1)

  • Napping and Sleeping

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.350(b)(1)(e)

Dec 16, 20252 citations

  • Napping and Sleeping

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.350(b)(1)

  • Special Requirements for Infants and Toddlers

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.210(b)

Read every record and the state’s reports

State record — Illinois DCFS

Last visit
January 29, 2026
On file
2 visits since December 2025 — both cited findings
Fixed?
The latest correction deadline was February 28, 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.

Jan 2026 Monitoring visit 11 findings

Monitoring visit · January 29, 2026

Napping and Sleeping

2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.350(b)(1) through (e) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.350(b)(1) · 407.350(b)(1)(e)

Physical Plant/Indoor Space

2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(d)(3) through (f)(2) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(d)(3) · 407.370(f)(2)

Organization and Administration

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.70(e) · Violation corrected

General Requirements for Personnel

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

Background Checks for Personnel

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.110 · Violation corrected on site

Personnel Records

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

Special Requirements for Infants and Toddlers

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.210(f)(10) · Violation corrected

Enrollment and Discharge Procedures

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(i)(2) · Violation corrected

Guidance and Discipline

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

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 646728 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Dec 2025 Monitoring visit 2 findings

Monitoring visit · December 16, 2025

Special Requirements for Infants and Toddlers

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

Napping and Sleeping

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.350(b)(1) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 646728 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

7737424399

Address
6411 S Ashland Ave
License
license issued (il)

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All checked July 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 "FIRST STEP LEARNING 2, INC" under Provider Name and 60636 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 646728).

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.