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Palatine Township mental health board approves agreement to receive funds

By Steve Zalusky
Aug 12, 2025 3:36 pm - The recently created Palatine Township Community Mental Health Board voted to pursue an intergovernmental agreement with Palatine Township to help bridge the board’s funding gap before it can collect its first taxes in 2026.
While promoting vaccines, Pritzker takes shots at Trump administration

By Russell Lissau
Aug 12, 2025 1:27 pm - Gov. JB Pritzker took shots at President Donald Trump’s administration while promoting childhood vaccinations in Wheeling.
AbbVie investing $195 million to expand manufacturing footprint in Illinois

By Madhu Krishnamurthy
Aug 12, 2025 1:24 pm - AbbVie, a global leader in life sciences, announced Tuesday the company’s is investing $195 million to expand its North Chicago manufacturing facility.
Shooter attacked CDC headquarters to protest COVID-19 vaccines

By CHARLOTTE KRAMON and JEFF MARTIN
Aug 12, 2025 11:49 am - The man who fired more than 180 shots with a long gun at the headquarters of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention broke into a locked safe to get his father's weapons and wanted to send a message against COVID-19 vaccines, authorities said Tuesday.
‘It’s going to be a game changer’: DuPage’s Crisis Recovery Center opening soon in Wheaton

By Katlyn Smith
Aug 12, 2025 9:42 am - DuPage officials are preparing to open a $25.8 million Crisis Recovery Center in Wheaton. It’s hailed as the first facility of its kind in Illinois.
Ascension Saint Alexius expands neonatal intensive care

By Steve Zalusky
Aug 06, 2025 10:47 am - Ascension Saint Alexius Medical Center in Hoffman Estates has received approval to expand its Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, adding 14 new bassinets to serve infants requiring critical care in the Chicago area.
RFK Jr. pulls $500 million in funding for vaccine development

By AMANDA SEITZ
Aug 05, 2025 7:23 pm - The Department of Health and Human Services will cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines that are being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu.
The world nearly beat polio. But fake records, an imperfect vaccine and missteps aided its comeback

By MARIA CHENG and RIAZAT BUTT
Aug 05, 2025 8:00 am - The World Health Organization has closed in on its bold goal of eradicating polio several times, but the paralytic virus is entrenched in parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan. As workers focus the vaccination campaign there, WHO and partners have been derailed by mismanagement and what insiders describe as blind allegiance to an outdated strategy and a problematic oral vaccine.
Nations gather in Geneva to again confront the world's spiraling plastic pollution crisis

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT
Aug 05, 2025 7:15 am - Nations kicked off a meeting on Tuesday to try to complete a landmark treaty aimed at ending the plastic pollution crisis that affects every ecosystem and person on the planet.
Lurie Children’s Hospital outpatient center adding to suburban ‘medtail’ redevelopment trend

By Eric Peterson
Aug 02, 2025 5:58 pm - The Ambulatory Infusion Center that’s the first phase of the Lurie Children’s Hospital outpatient center reaching completion in Schaumburg will open Aug. 18.

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