Is pink eye going around Chicago, Illinois?
Ickly's available Chicago, Illinois reports do not show a pink eye signal in the past 14 days. Limited reporting does not rule out illness circulating nearby.
Recent pink eye 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 pink eye report.
How Chicago parents can tell
- Red or pink eye whites
- Itchy or gritty feeling
- Watery or yellow discharge
- Crusty lashes after sleep
Viral pink eye spreads as long as the eye is watering; most schools ask for 24 hours of drops before a return.
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 pink eye 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 pink eye
These are schools on Ickly, not a list of schools with pink eye 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
Pink Eye in nearby Illinois towns
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