Is the common cold going around Oak Park, Illinois?
Not right now. No confirmed the common cold activity has been reported at Oak Park, 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 17 Oak Park schools and daycares tracked
How Oak Park 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 Oak Park 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 Oak Park
Oak Park 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.
- St. Catherine - St. Lucy Catholic School
- Morningside Children's Academy
- Back 2 Basics Day Care
- Blocks 24 hr Child Care Center
- Oliver W. Holmes Elementary School
- Oak Park & River Forest High School
- Whittier Elementary School
- The Day Nursery
- Abraham Lincoln Elementary School
- Percy Julian Middle School
- Horace Mann Elementary School
- Longfellow Elementary School
- William Beye Elementary School
- William Hatch Elementary School
- Gwendolyn Brooks Middle School
- Washington Irving Elementary School
- Fenwick High School
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Know before it reaches your house
Follow your Oak Park school and get a heads up when the common cold shows up.