The status of day care in Illinois is described in the presentations and workshop summaries of this conference. The state day care budget was close to $50 million for fiscal 1972, almost triple the previous year's amount. Illinois has day care programs for mentally handicapped children, children from low income families, the normal child, and so on. Of all the publicly funded day care programs, those serving the mentally retarded have increased more rapidly than any others. For handicapped children age 16 and over, day care may be in sheltered workshops. However, there are few programs for the emotionally disturbed, and the most neglected of all may be the children of migrant families. The presentations in this document discuss all aspects of day care in Illinois, including what kind of programs would be most useful, long-term planning, regulation, costs and financing, and performance evaluation. The closing session of the conference recommended support of the Brademus-Mondale Comprehensive Child Care Bill. (MF)