Is the common cold going around Chicago, Illinois?
Parents at Chicago, Illinois schools and daycares have logged the common cold-related diagnoses or symptoms in the past 14 days. These reports are a local signal, not evidence of a confirmed outbreak.
Recent the common cold signals in Chicago
- Runny nose (symptom label)5 mentions
Source: parent logs linked to Chicago schools and daycares on Ickly. Counts are label mentions, not unique children or cases; one log can include several symptoms. This is not citywide prevalence or public-health outbreak surveillance.
Latest local log across all illnesses: November 1, 2026. This is not the date of the latest the common cold report.
How Chicago parents can tell
- Runny or stuffy nose
- Sneezing and mild cough
- Scratchy throat
- Low-grade fever
Colds spread for the first two to three days, when the runny nose is at its worst.
Local signals come from parent-entered logs, with low-count labels withheld from this city breakdown. Symptoms can have more than one cause; use your child's symptoms and medical advice alongside local reports.
Read the full the common cold guideEverything reported in Chicago (past 14 days)
- Runny nose5 mentions
- Cough4 mentions
- Sore throat4 mentions
- Fever2 mentions
- Headache2 mentions
Other illnesses in Chicago
Chicago schools and daycares we watch for the common cold
These are schools on Ickly, not a list of schools with the common cold reports. Open your school's page for its local logs and sick policy.
- St. Nicholas Cathedral School
- Wise Owl Daycare
- John H Vanderpoel Elementary Magnet School
- Mary Mapes Dodge Elementary Renaissance Academy
- Florence Nightingale Elementary School
- Jacob Beidler Elementary School
- Donald Morrill Math & Science Elementary School
- Rainforest Learning Center - West Loop
- Carrie Jacobs Bond Elementary School
- Dewey Elementary Academy of Fine Arts
- North-Grand High School
- Ellen Mitchell Elementary School
- Frank W Gunsaulus Elementary Scholastic Academy
- John Harvard Elementary School of Excellence
- Daniel Webster Elementary School
- Christopher House-Uptown
- Centro Infantil Consuelo Lee Corretjer
- George Armstrong International Studies Elementary School
- Family Focus
- Wendell Smith Elementary School
- William P Nixon Elementary School
- Kelly High School
- Children International Academy
- Robert L Grimes Elementary School
Colds in nearby Illinois towns
Follow your Chicago school and get a heads up when the common cold shows up.
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