IDPH warns of West Nile virus in 17 Illinois counties, emphasizing prevention during Mosquito Control Awareness Week.

At the same time a new COVID variant has been reported in the U.S., residents of Illinois and across the nation will likely ...

Record-breaking heat indices — a combination of temperatures and humidity to determine how heat really feels to the body — are possible from Kansas City to Maine.

The Chicago hospitals will serve as "Elite Special Pathogen Treatment Centers" with the $1.5 million from IDPH.

Illinois Department of Public Health launched a Measles Outbreak Simulator Dashboard to easily identify vaccination rates and risks at schools. No cases have been reported in Illinois since early ...

In addition to bats, mosquitoes can also present health risks to local residents. A batch collected on June 6 from a North ...

(WLS) -- The Illinois Department of Public Health is reporting the first case ... Illinois officials said the risk of measles transmission for the general public in Illinois remains low.

The risk of community transmission for the ... contact your health care provider or visit the Illinois Department of Public Health webpage on measles or the CDC’s measles site.

It is something will create debilitating effects were the only Department of Public Health in our public health community across the state of Illinois, this funding an initially provided during ...

Although there have been no recent cases of measles in Illinois, the Illinois Department of Public Health released the ... in their child's school and its risk for an outbreak.

Canadian wildfire smoke has entered the Upper Midwest and poses significant health impacts in the hardest-hit areas.

The intensity of the humidity is going to be really, really something. It has the potential to have more health effects than ...