Richton Park · Licensed center
First Step Child Care Inc
At a glance
- Large center, licensed for 232 children.
What to know
The license is the range the state allows. It does not say which ages have openings.
What the state has found
The state cited rules at 1 of its 2 licensing inspections since May 2025.
See each inspection
Licensing inspections
- Sep 12, 2025Nothing cited
May 19, 20253 citations
General Requirements for Personnel
General Requirements for Personnel
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(a)
Special Requirements for Infants and Toddlers
Special Requirements for Infants and Toddlers
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.210(e)
Guidance and Discipline
Guidance and Discipline
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.270(c)(6)
The state cited rules at 1 of this center's 2 inspections. Most Chicago-area centers inspected twice had more: 60% of 83 had rules cited at both.
How all 83 Chicago-area centers inspected twice compare
Of the 83 Chicago-area centers the state inspected twice, how many of those inspections cited a rule:
- None13%
- 1 of 227%This center
- Both60%
Read every record and the state’s reports
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.
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.
Details
- Phone
- (708) 747-3000
- Address
- 22025 Governors Hwy, Richton Park, 60471
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State record
From Illinois DCFS’s published reports, last checked November 8, 2026.
Details
- Phone, Address, License — Checked August 2026 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).
- Ages on the license — Checked November 2026 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 1,948 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 119 to 487 children. Small is 8 to 48; medium is 49 to 118.
The ages on the license are what the state licenses it to care for, which can be wider than the ages it takes.