Chicago · Licensed center

Little Feet Big Step Center LLC

What these mean, and where they come from

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.

Shortlist doesn’t have these yet: cost, hours and late pickup, teaching approach, ratios and staff, a typical day, sick and biting policies.

What the state has found

Routine visits: 2 of 3 cited something

Chicago-area centers: the state cites something at about 5 in 6 routine visits. Three visits are too few to read as a pattern.

From Illinois DCFS’s published reports, last checked September 25, 2026.

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State record — Illinois DCFS

Last visit
June 15, 2026
On file
3 visits since January 2019 — 1 cited nothing
Fixed?
The latest correction deadline was August 15, 2019. 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.

Jun 2026 Compliance monitoring visit nothing cited
Jul 2019 Monitoring visit 8 findings

Monitoring visit · July 15, 2019

Staffing Structure

4 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.90(a)(2) through (f) · Violation substantiated

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.90(a)(2) · 407.90(a)(3) · 407.90(e) · 407.90(f)

Grouping and Staffing

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.190(a) · Repeat violation

Special Requirements for Infants and Toddlers

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

Daily Arrival and Departure of Children

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.260(d) · Violation substantiated

Health Requirements for Children

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(4) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 567377 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Jan 2019 Monitoring visit 1 finding

Monitoring visit · January 28, 2019

Grouping and Staffing

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.190(a) · Violation substantiated

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 567377 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

How the comparison is built

Routine visits: across Chicago-area centers, the state cites something at about 5 in 6 routine visits (19,088 visits).

Details

7736810494

Address
4545 N Kedzie Ave
License
license issued (il)

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All checked July 2026.

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Details

  • Phone, Address, License sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "LITTLE FEET BIG STEP CENTER LLC" under Provider Name and 60625 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 567377).