The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) is taking action to prevent the national spread of measles in Illinois. A total of eight measles cases, all linked to one another, were identified in ...

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

The Illinois Department of Public Health has declared this spring’s measles outbreak officially ended and is promoting action ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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).” ...

(WAND) - The Illinois Department of Public Health announced an expansion of its list of ZIP codes where lead exposure testing is required for children who live within those areas.

With no new measles cases identified in Illinois since May 22, health officials have declared the measles outbreak over, the Illinois Department of Public Health announced Friday.

The Illinois Department of Public Health expanded its list of zip codes where lead exposure testing is required for children who live in the areas, including some Heartland counties.