Is the common cold going around Northbrook, Illinois?
Not right now. No confirmed the common cold activity has been reported at Northbrook, 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 23, 2026 18 Northbrook schools and daycares tracked
How Northbrook 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 Northbrook 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.
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Northbrook 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.
- Northbrook Junior High School
- Northbrook Montessori School
- Cove School
- Oaklane School
- Maple Middle School
- Meadowbrook Elementary School
- Saint Norberts School
- Torah Learning Center of Northbrook
- Wood Oaks Junior High School
- Solomon Schechter Day School
- Bright Horizons
- Wescott Elementary School
- Hickory Point Elementary School
- Stanley Field Junior High School
- Shabonee School
- Westmoor Elementary School
- Glenbrook North High School
- Greenbriar School
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Know before it reaches your house
Follow your Northbrook school and get a heads up when the common cold shows up.