Ezike, a regular face on Illinois TV screens in the worst days of the pandemic, acknowledged she violated the state's ...

The CARE Program sends a mental health professional and an EMT – not police officers or firefighters – to respond to calls of ...

Health officials in Chicago confirmed the city’s first pediatric seasonal flu-related deaths of 2025 this week. According to ...

It comes after no children died of the seasonal flu during the 2023-24 season, which runs from September to May, according to ...

This announcement from the Chicago Department of Public Health comes as respiratory viruses continue to spread across the ...

The highly-contagious norovirus has been spreading quickly across the country and in particular in the Chicago area—and ...

Two infants have died of the flu in the first two weeks of the year, according to the Chicago Department of Public Health.

The former Illinois public health chief agreed to a settlement over taking the post at Sinai just three months after leaving ...

An increase in cases of COVID, RSV, norovirus and the flu is being referred to as the "winter quad-demic." The Chicago Department of Public Health said two children under the age of 2 have died due to ...

Respiratory illness levels in Illinois have risen from moderate to high, according to the state's health department, but what ...

Gov. JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Public Health announced the award of $118,000 to the Winnebago County Health Department (WCHD) to create a “health ...

The fight over a hemp bill that never got called overshadowed legislation that was passed during the Illinois General ...