Is RSV going around Chicago, Illinois?
Ickly's available Chicago, Illinois reports do not show a RSV signal in the past 14 days. Limited reporting does not rule out illness circulating nearby.
Recent RSV 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 RSV report.
How Chicago parents can tell
- Runny nose and congestion
- Wheezing or fast breathing
- Persistent wet cough
- Poor feeding in babies
RSV looks like a cold in older kids but hits infants hardest, and it spreads for three to eight days.
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 RSV 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 RSV
These are schools on Ickly, not a list of schools with RSV 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
- Mary Mapes Dodge Elementary Renaissance Academy
- Florence Nightingale Elementary School
- Jacob Beidler Elementary School
- Donald Morrill Math & Science Elementary School
- Rainforest Learning Center - West Loop
- Carrie Jacobs Bond Elementary School
- Dewey Elementary Academy of Fine Arts
- North-Grand High School
- Ellen Mitchell Elementary School
- Frank W Gunsaulus Elementary Scholastic Academy
- John Harvard Elementary School of Excellence
- Daniel Webster Elementary School
- Christopher House-Uptown
- Centro Infantil Consuelo Lee Corretjer
- George Armstrong International Studies Elementary School
- Family Focus
- Wendell Smith Elementary School
- William P Nixon Elementary School
- Kelly High School
- Children International Academy
- Robert L Grimes Elementary School
RSV in nearby Illinois towns
Follow your Chicago school and get a heads up when RSV shows up.
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