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Government shutdown begins as nation faces new period of uncertainty

By LISA MASCARO, MARY CLARE JALONICK and STEPHEN GROVES
Oct 01, 2025 7:27 am - Plunged into a government shutdown, the U.S. is confronting a fresh cycle of uncertainty after President Donald Trump and Congress failed to strike an agreement to keep government programs and services running by Wednesday’s deadline.
Lurie Children’s Hospital Outpatient Center celebrates opening in Schaumburg

By Eric Peterson
Sep 30, 2025 3:47 pm - Local officials welcomed the opening of the Lurie Children’s Hospital Outpatient Center in Schaumburg Tuesday with some words on what it will do for the community and what the community can do for it.
A student ‘womb service’ works covertly to deliver contraception at DePaul

By CHRISTINE FERNANDO
Sep 30, 2025 6:59 am - College student Maya Roman has the handoff down to a science: a text message, a walk to a designated site, and a paper bag delivered with condoms and Plan B emergency contraception. At DePaul University, it’s the only way students can get a sliver of sexual health support, she said.
US government on brink of first shutdown in almost 7 years amid partisan standoff in Congress

By MARY CLARE JALONICK, LISA MASCARO and STEPHEN GROVES
Sep 30, 2025 6:42 am - A partisan standoff over health care and spending is threatening to trigger the first U.S. government shutdown in almost seven years, with Democrats and Republicans in Congress unable to find agreement even as thousands of federal workers stand to be furloughed or laid off.
Illinois braces for more patients as Wisconsin pauses abortions

By Mary Norkol
Sep 26, 2025 8:19 am - Illinois elected officials and abortion providers foresee an influx of Wisconsin patients after the state’s Planned Parenthood branch announced Wednesday it would pause abortions Oct. 1 while it faces losing Medicaid funding as a result of President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax law.
Wisconsin Planned Parenthood pauses abortions amid federal Medicaid funding cut

By SCOTT BAUER and GEOFF MULVIHILL
Sep 25, 2025 12:09 pm - Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin will stop scheduling patients for abortions starting next week as it works to find a way to provide the service in the face of Medicaid funding cuts in President Donald Trump's tax and spending bill, the nonprofit said Thursday.
Why Illinois is issuing separate COVID-19 vaccine guidelines for fall

By Marni Pyke
Sep 24, 2025 5:32 pm - Illinois widens approvals for COVID-19 shots, says CDC foments “confusion and uncertainty.”
25 years of play, healing and hope: How St. Alexius’ Child Life internship reshaped pediatric caregiving

By Eric Peterson
Sep 23, 2025 5:49 pm - For 25 years, the Child Life internship program at St. Alexius Women & Children’s Hospital in Hoffman Estates has been paving career paths in a service integral to most pediatric departments.
Trump’s unfounded claims heap new stress on household brand name Tylenol

By TOM MURPHY and MICHELLE CHAPMAN
Sep 23, 2025 3:47 pm - President Donald Trump blasted Tylenol this week, promoting unproven links between the pain reliever and autism and pushing the well-established treatment into another national image crisis.
As Trump ties Tylenol to autism, doctors raise alarms

Ariana Eunjung Cha, Matt Viser, Dan Diamond
Sep 22, 2025 10:31 pm - The Trump administration on Monday ventured into uncertain scientific territory, calling to limit the use of one medication under investigation for a possible connection ...

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