Is hand, foot, and mouth disease going around Chicago, Illinois?

Recent hand, foot, and mouth disease 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 hand, foot, and mouth disease report.

How Chicago parents can tell

• Mild fever and fussiness
• Painful mouth sores
• Red spots or blisters on hands and feet
• Drooling or refusing to eat

It is most contagious in the first week, but the virus can stay in stool for weeks, which is why daycares see long runs of it.

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.