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The governor announced the second phase of the Illinois Grocery Initiative, which includes a round of grant funding for new grocers in food deserts.
There’s not much research to indicate one “best” position for sleeping, one expert says. You should leave it up to your sleeping body to decide.
A spokesman for the nonprofit says the move to break up the organization was necessary to protect the “long-term viability” of the services provided by the organization founded by Jane Addams in 1888.
A nearly nine-hour hearing of City Council’s Committee on Environmental Protection and Energy was a preview of a fight to come over Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposed ordinance to end connections of carbon-dioxide producing natural gas.
The Chicago Department of Public Health would not reveal the number of TB cases or identify shelters. A health department spokesperson said, “I would not characterize this as an outbreak.”
Five hundred swimmers will participate in the first organized swim event, which will raise funds for ALS research and swim programs for at-risk youth.
Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough was hospitalized for serious medical condition, her spokesperson said. “Her family is requesting privacy, and we ask for prayers for the Clerk and her family at this difficult time,” said Sally Daly, deputy clerk of communications.
If Illinois follows through with legislation to create such a board, some medications could get pulled from pharmacies. People without means to travel out of state or pay cash would be left out.
The glasses will be available at all Warby Parker locations while supplies last starting Monday until the day of the eclipse April 8.
First, this is physician-assisted suicide. Second, a poll that showed a majority of people are in favor of it was conducted in a one-sided manner.
Sneezing and itchy eyes are here already and may last longer than usual. “This season has been so nuts,” says Dr. Rachna Shah, allergist at Loyola Medicine Allergy Count.
The resident was exposed during their time at a migrant shelter. They have recovered and are no longer contagious, the Cook County Department of Public Health said.
Advocates from across the United States spoke at the summit, and some hope to hold similar evens their cities.
His surgeons spent 10 hours transplanting his new lungs and liver in September. Six months after the operation, Dr. Gary Gibbon remains cancer-free, able to breathe on his own and celebrated his 69th birthday on Wednesday.
Doctors say looking at the April 8 eclipse without approved solar glasses — which are many times darker than sunglasses — can lead to retinal burns and can result in blind spots and permanent vision loss.
Children ages 4 and younger account for 21 of the city’s total cases, according to the Chicago Department of Public Health. Officials say vaccination is the best way to prevent measles and stop its spread.
The new report by ACLU of Illinois and Women’s Justice Institute shares stories from women who were pregnant while jailed across Illinois. Researchers also say a quarter of county jails don’t have written policies on how to care for people who are pregnant or postpartum.
Residents at the Pilsen migrant shelter should receive a second measles shot 28 days after their first one, the city’s Department of Public Health advised.
Illinoisans should have the option to decide for themselves when they have suffered enough at the end of life so they can die peacefully, at home.
Venezuela, where most of the migrants come from, used to have relatively high vaccination rates but, due to instability there, rates have plummeted and measles cases have increased.
Like a lot of students, Isabelle Dizon was looking for mental health support. The University of Illinois Chicago promised to help but never came through.
The newest cases were both in children 4 years or younger, the same age group that has accounted for more than half of the city’s cases.
In all, 129,000 children, 68% of those 5 or younger, had lead in their home drinking water, a study found.
Family advocacy centers are a statewide network of community-based providers with the objective of supporting families to keep them out of the Illinois Department of Children and Families Services system.
Omatola Oyedapo gave birth at the University of Chicago hospital in July 2016. The lawsuit claimed negligence in the hospital’s emergency department delayed the delivery, causing severe neurological injuries to the child, who died four years later.
La iniciativa, la primera de este tipo en el país, sellaría o redactaría automáticamente los detalles sobre la salud reproductiva de una persona incluidos en documentos de las cortes.
The hospital said to expect intermittent disruptions on the platform as MyChart hasn’t been updated since before it was taken down. It’s been over six weeks since Lurie had to take down all of its systems because of a cybersecurity threat.
Earlier this week, Chicago Public Schools learned of a positive measles case involving a student at Philip D. Armour Elementary School, and the Chicago Department of Public Health confirmed another case at Cooper Dual Language Elementary Academy.