Respiratory illness levels in Illinois have risen from moderate to high, according to the state's health department, but what ...

In the hours after New Orleans officials announced that at least 15 people had been killed and 30 were injured in an attack ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago area hospitals are welcoming the first babies of 2025. Scarlett Carmela Sartori was born at 12:12 a.m. at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center to Sophia Sartori and Joshua ...

Instead, the 6-pound, 15-ounce newborn was delivered at Illinois Masonic Hospital less than 15 minutes after the new year ...

Hundreds of new laws take effect in 2025, impacting the minimum wage and how Illinoisans can get IDs, cancel their gym ...

Newborns in the neonatal intensive care unit at Franciscan Health Crown Point and their families had a special visitor recently when Dr. Brett Galley, an Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of ...

And in early 2024, lawmakers reintroduced the Credit for Caring Act in Congress. It proposes a federal tax credit of up to $5 ...

CHICAGO - A 24-year-old man has died after being shot early Saturday in South Chicago, police said. The shooting occurred at 4:32 a.m. in the 8400 block of South Kingston Avenue. The man, shot in ...

2024 was an extraordinary year at the University of Chicago. The University launched groundbreaking ... Medicine’s new cancer pavilion—the first freestanding facility in Illinois dedicated to ...

CHICAGO — A state board has approved Ascension’s plan to sell nine of its Illinois hospitals for more than $370 million to a large California-based health system. The state Health Facilities ...

Ascension, which has 118 hospitals across the country, operates 14 hospitals in Illinois, 10 of which are in the Chicago area. But with deal, Ascension’s number of Illinois hospitals will shrink ...