Public employees are leaving their professions and our state because they can’t rely on a pension that ensures dignity in ...

The report notes that the lack of regulation of hemp means there is no oversight of ingredients, potency or marketing to kids ...

Current attention on the issue ... by bringing public health experts together. One Health Commission members will include the IDPH director, the president of the University of Illinois, the ...

The proposal was approved by a 214-212 vote, only after Speaker Mike Johnson wrangled more Republican support. All three ...

CHICAGO - Cook County has officially declared maternal morbidity and mortality a public health crisis. The announcement came Tuesday during a press conference held by Cook County Board President Toni ...

A bill creating an interdisciplinary commission to study the interplay between animals, the environment and infectious disease within the Illinois Department of Public Health passed the House ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apparently embraces the outdated "miasma theory" of disease instead of the widely ...

As smoke from wildfires in Canada makes its way south to Illinois, the Illinois Department of Public Health is issuing a warning on the health concerns this smoke ...

Toxic air spreads hundreds or even thousands of miles from where wildfires burn. Last week, Chicago felt the sting—and ...