Join us for Lunch with Santa on the Train at the Wabash Depot in Monticello, Illinois, a holiday favorite with kids of all ages.

Great segment on gun violence as a public health crisis via WGN TV.

Cook County Hospital issued the following announcement on Nov. 15.Today I unveiled a comprehensive and ambitious #CookCounty Policy Roadmap: Five-year Strategic Plan for the Offices Under the President (OUP).

More than 17.9 million worldwide deaths each year are attributed to cardiovascular disease, according to the American Heart Association.

While eye doctors recommend a yearly eye exam for those 40 and older (even if you have no vision issues), Dr. Laura Sanders, an ophthalmologist affiliated with Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago, says if you notice any of the following symptoms, you should get to your eye doctor as soon as possible, or the ER at once.

Project LifeSkills, a behavioral intervention to prevent HIV in young transgender women, was designated by the HIV/AIDS Prevention Research Synthesis (PRS) project at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as showing the best evidence of efficacy

For parents, one of the most difficult parts of surgery is handing their child off to strangers. Thanks to Child Life Specialists at Lurie Children’s, that road is a little easier.

After two years of collecting ideas and planning, the North Lawndale Community Coordinating Council and their partners unveiled what they are billing as "the next chapter" of North Lawndale's history — a community-wide Quality of Life Plan.

Black Panthers and Black Panther Cubs from all over the city and country gathered at Stone Temple Baptist Church, located at Central Park and Douglas Blvd., for an all-day health fair on Nov. 3.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced today that a Chicago-led coalition of 19 cities and counties filed an amicus brief in Flores v. Sessions late last night in support of the plaintiffs’ request for the court to enjoin the implementation of rules proposed by the U.S. Departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services that would undo state-licensing requirements and procedural protections guaranteed to immigrant children being detained by the federal government under the 1997 Flores settlement agreement.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel joined Corporation Counsel Ed Siskel, Business Affairs and Consumer Protection Commissioner (BACP) Rosa Escareno, and Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) Commissioner Julie Morita, MD today to announce that the City of Chicago will file suit against eight online sellers of e-cigarette products for illegally selling their products to Chicago youth.

A majority of Americans want the government and private sector to do more to protect LGBTQ rights.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago Commission on Human Relations Chair and Commissioner Mona Noriega announced the latest recognition of the City’s efforts to ensure inclusion and protections for Chicago’s LGBTQ community with Chicago receiving a 100-point rating in the Human Rights Campaign’s annual Municipal Equality Index.

"There they go again. The Trump Administration never ceases to amaze, and this is just further proof that they are out of step with the people of Chicago and out of touch with reality

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and David Whitaker, President & CEO of Choose Chicago, today announced that for the second consecutive year, Conde Nast Traveler’s readers have voted Chicago as the best big city in the U.S.

Many injuries in the fall come from contact sports such as football and ice hockey.

“By the time you finish reading this, at least six people will have killed themselves around the world.” That’s the first line of Lady Gaga’s moving op-ed on mental health and suicide, published Tuesday in the British newspaper The Guardian, which she co-authored with Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization.

Dozens of breast cancer survivors, fighters and family members from across Illinois, flanked by clinicians involved in their care, gathered to #PinkOut the Chicago Bulls preseason home game on October 10.

.Disability inclusion results in innovation and makes businesses stronger.

U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) today joined hospital and community leaders to announce a groundbreaking new initiative bringing together 10 of the largest hospitals serving Chicago aimed at reducing violence and improving health in Chicago’s most underserved neighborhoods.