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A Medline plant in Waukegan. (Erin Hooley/baiduhai)

Northfield-based Medline files for proposed initial public offering

October 28, 2025 at 5:25 p.m.

Medline – a massive medical supply company based in Northfield – publicly filed paperwork Tuesday for a proposed initial public offering.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, left, and Sen. Cory Booker stand with a poster depicting medical costs rising if Congress allows enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits to expire, as Schumer speaks to reporters after a Democratic policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Oct. 15, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty)

Illinois residents to see 78% average cost increase for Affordable Care Act exchange plans if subsidies expire

October 27, 2025 at 5:39 p.m.

Illinois residents to see 78% average increase in cost of Affordable Care Act exchange plans, if Congress allows subsidies to expire

Abbott Laboratories in Abbott Park on June 25, 2018. (Stacey Wescott/baiduhai)

Abbott Laboratories, facing hundreds of lawsuits over safety of formula for premature babies, notches a win in federal court

October 24, 2025 at 5:37 p.m.

The win is Abbott’s third in a row in federal court in Chicago where hundreds of cases over specialized formulas for preterm infants have been consolidated.

A statue of St. Francis of Assisi outside St. Joseph Medical Center in Joliet in 2022. (Taylor Glascock/The New York Times)

Unionized nurses never received promised COVID-19 bonus pay at St. Joseph Medical Center, lawsuit alleges

October 21, 2025 at 5:04 p.m.

The petition seeks to compel St. Joseph Medical Center in Joliet, its owner Prime Healthcare and former owner Ascension to go to arbitration over the matter.

Lawsuit alleges Skokie OB-GYN, leader at St. Francis Hospital, sexually assaulted patient in his office

October 21, 2025 at 9:33 a.m.

A new lawsuit alleges that a Skokie OB-GYN and leader at Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston sexually assaulted a patient at his private practice.

A man walks dogs past Weiss Memorial Hospital on Aug. 7, 2025, in Chicago. (John J. Kim/baiduhai)

West Suburban and now-shuttered Weiss hospital owe more than $69 million in taxes, penalties to state of Illinois

October 16, 2025 at 10:42 a.m.

The revelation is the latest evidence of trouble at the two hospitals, which were bought by Prasad’s Resilience Healthcare in 2022.

Lake Forest Hospital, which completed construction in 2018 costing nearly $400 million, is seen in Lake Forest on March 7, 2019. (Mark Ukena/Pioneer Press)

Northwestern’s Lake Forest Hospital gets a new name, after Ken Griffin gift

October 8, 2025 at 2:24 p.m.

The hospital will now be called Northwestern Medicine Catherine Gratz Griffin Lake Forest Hospital, after Ken Griffin’s mother.

People walk past Lurie Children’s Hospital in the Streeterville neighborhood on Feb. 8, 2024. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

Lurie again named best children’s hospital in Illinois by US News

October 7, 2025 at 9:05 a.m.

UChicago Medicine Comer Children’s Hospital was named as the second best in the state, and Advocate Children’s Hospital was ranked third.

In 2020, Walgreens was announced as a tenant in the lobby of the Old Post Office building at 433 W. Van Buren St. in Chicago. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

Walgreens to exit Chicago’s Old Post Office building

October 7, 2025 at 10:34 a.m.

Walgreens plans to exit its space at Chicago's Old Post Office, though it will keep its headquarters in Deerfield, the company confirmed Monday.

Cook County Commissioner Kisha McCaskill, right, hugs Destiny Tyler, a parent who lost her son to sudden infant death syndrome, after she spoke Oct. 1, 2025, at a news conference about sudden infant death rates at the Cook County medical examiner's office. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

Black babies die suddenly, unexpectedly at 14 times the rate of white babies in Cook County, report says

October 2, 2025 at 10:27 a.m.

“Babies are dying simply because mothers don't have the information and the support that they need.”

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