Is the flu going around Chicago, Illinois?

Recent the flu 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 the flu report.

How Chicago parents can tell

• Sudden high fever
• Body aches and chills
• Dry cough and sore throat
• Unusual fatigue

Flu spreads from a day before symptoms start until about a week after, and kids shed the virus longer than adults.

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.