Is COVID-19 going around Chicago, Illinois?
Ickly's available Chicago, Illinois reports do not show a COVID-19 signal in the past 14 days. Limited reporting does not rule out illness circulating nearby.
Recent COVID-19 signals in Chicago
No matching labels appear in the available privacy-filtered breakdown. Low-count labels may be withheld, and this list does not capture every illness in the city.
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 COVID-19 report.
How Chicago parents can tell
- Fever or chills
- Cough and congestion
- Sore throat
- Headache or fatigue
Most kids are past the contagious stretch about five days after symptoms start, with improving symptoms and no fever.
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 COVID-19 guideEverything reported in Chicago (past 14 days)
- Runny nose6 mentions
- Cough4 mentions
- Sore throat4 mentions
- Fever2 mentions
- Headache2 mentions
Other illnesses in Chicago
Chicago schools and daycares we watch for COVID-19
These are schools on Ickly, not a list of schools with COVID-19 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
- New Einsteins Academy
- Mary Mapes Dodge Elementary Renaissance Academy
- Florence Nightingale Elementary School
- Jacob Beidler Elementary School
- Donald Morrill Math & Science Elementary School
- Saint George School
- Rainforest Learning Center - West Loop
- Carrie Jacobs Bond Elementary School
- Dewey Elementary Academy of Fine Arts
- La Escuelita Numero Cuatro
- Northern Trust Child Care Center
- North-Grand High School
- Ellen Mitchell Elementary School
- Bridgeport Catholic Academy
- Frank W Gunsaulus Elementary Scholastic Academy
- John Harvard Elementary School of Excellence
- Ladybug Mdl Belmont3 LLC
- Daniel Webster Elementary School
- Crown Community Academy of Fine Arts Center Elementary School
- Christopher House-Uptown
- Centro Infantil Consuelo Lee Corretjer
COVID in nearby Illinois towns
Follow your Chicago school and get a heads up when COVID-19 shows up.
Want it closer to home? Browse Illinois by ZIP code or see every illness in Chicago.