There’s no single entity overseeing the mental health care system in Chicago. That means, for instance, that homeless patients discharged from private hospitals might be given a bottle of ...

Anthony Stringfellow Jr., 19, tied a shoelace to the raised bolt of a hinge on his bathroom door at Madden Mental Health Center in Chicago's western suburbs on Feb. 7, 2023.

Police officers in 2023 at a crime scene in downtown Chicago, where random attacks in recent years have involved suspects who had have long histories of untreated mental illness and acts of violence.

CHICAGO (WGN) — Mental health resources are needed now more than ever. The National Institute of Mental Health reported 57.8 million adults admitted to having some form of mental illness in 2024.

"UChicago Medicine has reached the difficult decision that in response to continued federal actions, it will discontinue all gender-affirming pediatric care effective immediately." ...

"We saw that there was a health desert in Back of the Yards, and my doctor is Dr. Maurice Brownlee, of Wellness Homes on Halsted, and he decided to open up this would be his fourth location, where ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- An HIV prevention and treatment center is now open on the North Side of Chicago. Officials cut the ribbon on the center at 5537 N. Broadway in Edgewater Wednesday morning.