Is head lice going around Oak Park, Illinois?
Not right now. No confirmed head lice 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.
How Oak Park parents can tell
- Persistent scalp itching
- Tickling feeling in the hair
- Tiny white eggs near the scalp
- Red bumps on the neck or behind the ears
Lice do not jump or fly. They pass through head-to-head contact and shared hats or brushes.
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.
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Oak Park schools and daycares we watch for head lice
Follow a school to get a heads up the moment head lice is logged there.
- Blocks 24 hr Child Care Center
- The Day Nursery
- Back 2 Basics Day Care
- Whittier Elementary School
- William Beye Elementary School
- William Hatch Elementary School
- Abraham Lincoln Elementary School
- Washington Irving Elementary School
- Horace Mann Elementary School
- Oliver W. Holmes Elementary School
- Longfellow Elementary School
- Fenwick High School
- Oak Park & River Forest High School
- Gwendolyn Brooks Middle School
- Percy Julian Middle School
- Morningside Children's Academy
- St. Catherine - St. Lucy Catholic School
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