Where to go get TB test in Chicago?

Answer 1

Contact your City Health Department. Its website should have a nurse line you can call and ask where a testing clinic or health clinic is located. They may let you call anonymously but regardless will keep your info confidential as required by law.

The nurse phone number can often be found in the front of the phone book where city and state help numbers to call are listed. A nurse can direct you to a free or low-cost clinic for the simple test.

This is assuming you do not have a regular doctor you see for checkups or illness. If you have a regular doctor they can do the test. You may also get the test at a "walk in clinic" or "immediate medical are center" just ask before seeing the doctor to make sure they do the test and ask the cost first, if you do not have insurance.

But if uninsured, going through the city is the best option to find a low-cost or free clinic. At free clinics it is nice to make a small donation as a thank you to the doctors and nurses and help pay the clinic testing costs, even if only a few dollars. The people work hard there.