Pritzker signs mental health screening bill. Pritzker joined State Superintendent Tony Sanders, Chief Officer for Children’s ...

Health officials are concerned about West Nile virus. Mosquitoes in Joliet and Chicago tested positive. The Illinois ...

Local officials went business to business to offer vaccinations, and the state health department also held mobile vaccination clinics, IDPH officials said.

August is National Immunization Month. As part of this year’s IDPH’s Back-to-School vaccination campaign, Southern 7 Health ...

As America experiences its worst outbreak of measles in more than 30 years, Illinois public health officials announced July ...

The Illinois Department of Public Health has declared this spring’s measles outbreak officially ended and is promoting action to prevent the continued spread of the virus. A total of 10 measles ...

Budget - SB 2510 (Welch/Sims) created the fiscal year (FY) 2026 budget appropriation bill. The budget is based on ...

Illinois officials say they're combatting "dangerous misinformation" from the Trump administration as the U.S. battles a ...

Vaccination rates in the U.S. have dropped since the COVID-19 pandemic, according to IDPH. As recently as this spring, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the measles ...

Stratus Covid variant, also referred to as XFG, is a new subvariant of Omicron that has been circulating around the globe and now accounts for 25% of COVID cases (as of May 2025).” ...

Records show that a top U.S. regulator rejected the recommendations of agency experts and limited the use of Covid vaccines.

A new COVID strain called "Nimbus" is now in the U.S. Nimbus has spread to at least 22 countries Symptoms include "razor blade" sore throat Once again, a new strain of COVID has hit the country ...