Is the flu going around Joliet, Illinois?
Not right now. No confirmed the flu 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
- Sudden high fever
- Body aches and chills
- Dry cough and sore throat
- Unusual fatigue
Flu spreads from a day before symptoms start until about a week after, and kids shed the virus longer than adults.
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 flu guideOther illnesses in Joliet
Joliet schools and daycares we watch for the flu
Follow a school to get a heads up the moment the flu 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 flu shows up.