Hanover Park · Licensed center

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What the state has found

The state cited rules at its 1 licensing inspection, in October 2026.

Of the 55 Chicago-area centers with 1 licensing inspection, 82% had rules cited at it, as this center did. 18% had none cited.

Licensing inspections

Oct 2, 20264 citations

  • Personnel Records

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(2)

  • Physical Plant/Indoor Space

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

  • Physical Plant/Indoor Space

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(e)(10)

  • Physical Plant/Indoor Space

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

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State record — Illinois DCFS

Last visit
October 2, 2026
On file
1 visit, October 2026 — it cited findings
Fixed?
Correction was due November 2, 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.

Oct 2026 Monitoring visit 4 findings

Monitoring visit · October 2, 2026

Physical Plant/Indoor Space

3 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(d)(2) through (e)(10) · Violation substantiated

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(d)(2) · 407.370(d)(3) · 407.370(e)(10)

Personnel Records

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(2) · Violation substantiated

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 621113 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

6308376307

Address
5600 Arlington Dr E
License
pending renewal application (rn)

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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 "MINI STEPS" under Provider Name and 60133 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 621113).

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