Is head lice going around Chicago, Illinois?
Ickly's available Chicago, Illinois reports do not show a head lice signal in the past 14 days. Limited reporting does not rule out illness circulating nearby.
Recent head lice 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: October 30, 2026. This is not the date of the latest head lice report.
How Chicago parents can tell
- Persistent scalp itching
- Tickling feeling in the hair
- Tiny white eggs near the scalp
- Red bumps on the neck or behind the ears
Lice do not jump or fly. They pass through head-to-head contact and shared hats or brushes.
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 head lice guideEverything reported in Chicago (past 14 days)
- Cough3 mentions
- Runny nose3 mentions
- Sore throat3 mentions
Other illnesses in Chicago
Chicago schools and daycares we watch for head lice
These are schools on Ickly, not a list of schools with head lice reports. Open your school's page for its local logs and sick policy.
- St. Nicholas Cathedral School
- Family Room
- Wise Owl Daycare
- Eastside Kids, Incorporated
- John H Vanderpoel Elementary Magnet School
- Luke O'toole Elementary School
- Mary Mapes Dodge Elementary Renaissance Academy
- Florence Nightingale Elementary School
- Just Like Grannys Learning Center
- Jacob Beidler Elementary School
- Donald Morrill Math & Science Elementary School
- Rainforest Learning Center - West Loop
- Inspire U Community Center
- Carrie Jacobs Bond Elementary School
- Dewey Elementary Academy of Fine Arts
- North-Grand High School
- Children's Land On Belmont Ave., INC.
- Concordia Place
- Ellen Mitchell Elementary School
- Frank W Gunsaulus Elementary Scholastic Academy
- Out On Faith Learning Center, INC.
- John Harvard Elementary School of Excellence
- Children's Creative Center
- Daniel Webster Elementary School
Head Lice in nearby Illinois towns
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