Schools across Illinois tested their water for lead because of a 2017 Illinois law. Find the results here.
A 2017 Illinois law required elementary schools to test each of their drinking water sources for lead and submit the results to the state by the end of 2018. The law applied only to schools serving kids younger than 6th grade and located in buildings constructed before January 2000, though some districts tested all of their school buildings. Fixtures tested include drinking fountains and sinks in kitchens, bathrooms and classrooms.
, sent surveys or filed records requests to those districts. The state data for the most part does not include results of voluntary retesting.Below, you can search two separate datasets created by the Tribune: one for public schools outside of Chicago, based on data submitted to the state and the Tribune’s reporting, and one for the Chicago Public Schools’ own comprehensive testing program, which includes water samples taken over a longer time period.
Elsewhere in Illinois, test results generally include two samples from each source: the first draw and a second sample after a 30-second flush. Chicago’s program requires drawing five samples from each fixture. Some schools’ water was sampled on multiple dates, and the district attempts to test a quarter of its schools each year. The results include samples collected after mitigation efforts.
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