Is the common cold going around Joliet, Illinois?
Not right now. No confirmed the common cold activity has been reported at Joliet, Illinois schools and daycares in the past 14 days. That can mean it is quiet, or simply that nobody nearby has logged it yet.
Updated August 25, 2026 30 Joliet schools and daycares tracked
How Joliet parents can tell
- Runny or stuffy nose
- Sneezing and mild cough
- Scratchy throat
- Low-grade fever
Colds spread for the first two to three days, when the runny nose is at its worst.
Everything on this page comes from Joliet parents logging what their kids actually had, stripped of anything identifying. Nothing shows up until at least two families report the same thing, so one sick child never puts a school on the map.
Read the full the common cold guideOther illnesses in Joliet
Joliet schools and daycares we watch for the common cold
Follow a school to get a heads up the moment the common cold is logged there.
- Joliet Central High School
- Thompson Instructional Center
- Sator Sanchez Elementary School
- Joliet Junior College Weitendorf Agricultural Education Center
- Joliet Catholic Academy
- Joliet West High School
- Marycrest Early Childhood Center
- Carl Sandburg Elementary School
- Thomas Jefferson Elementary School
- T. E. Culbertson Elementary School
- Eisenhower Academy
- Hufford Junior High School
- Taft Elementary School
- Pershing Elementary School
- Farragut Elementary School
- Laraway Elementary School
- Washington Junior High School and Academy
- Edna Keith Elementary School
- Grand Prairie Elementary School
- Forest Park Individual Education School
- Woodland Elementary School
- Lincoln School
- M. J. Cunningham Elementary School
- A.O. Marshall Elementary School
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Know before it reaches your house
Follow your Joliet school and get a heads up when the common cold shows up.