Chicago Health offers expert insight into modern healthcare and lifestyle, the best practices and treatments, and more through engaging editorial and professional profiles. It is a resource for Chicagoans to advocate for their own care and an opportunity for medical institutions and practitioners at the apex of their field to educate the public.

Chicago Health is published by Northwest Publishing, LLC, a Chicago based media company. Its first issue was published the fall of 2010, and is now published semi-annually in January and July.

The company was founded in 1998 by Louis A. (Skip) Weiss, a lifelong Chicago resident. In 1953 Mr. Weiss’ family opened Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital, a community institution that continues to serve residents living on Chicago’s Northside. With Chicago Health, Mr. Weiss continues his family’s legacy of providing healthcare services in the Chicago metropolitan area.