This booklet contains the licensing standards for day and night care homes established by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services. A day care home is described as a place away from home where a child can feel cared for and cared about. Standards have been set up to provide a safe, secure day care home with responsive and caring adults, and the regulations are divided into the following major areas: licensing, records and reports, home facilities, the day care family, services to children, children with special needs, school age children, night care and infants and toddlers. (MS)