Boston has declared a snow emergency ahead of Sunday's snowstorm​ and canceled school for Monday.

Wind chills are expected to plummet as low as minus 35 degrees Friday, according to the National Weather Service.

When temperatures drop near zero combined with dangerously low wind chills down to -40 degrees Fahrenheit, heed these tips ...

For many patients, they are also where the most advanced care and emerging treatments are found, writes UIC's vice chancellor ...

Emergency rooms at local hospitals are seeing an increase in cases linked directly or indirectly to the record-breaking cold.

The other day the author Sara Levine asked me to meet her at a dog beach in Evanston. I didn’t have a hard time finding her.

More nurses are needed to care for the aging population in the U.S., but fewer nurses are replacing the retiring ones. Over the next decade, the U.S. is projected a shortage of more than 63,000 ...

The staff at Let's Eat to Live on East 67th Street in Woodlawn was cleaning up from brunch service Sunday afternoon when they ...

The Chicago Department of Public Health has issued a new alert after two people recently died from a form of meningitis, and ...

Dozens of libraries would also be closed, the Emergency Closing Center reported. Some popular Chicago-area museums also ...

Around 150 gathered outside Chicago’s Jessie Brown VA Medical Center Wednesday night to mourn death of nurse in Minneapolis, and demand end of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Severe flu season is sending many people to hospital emergency rooms across the country, including in the Chicago area. The U.S. is seeing its highest level of respiratory illness in two decades; and ...