The 26 Best Hospitals In Illinois: New National Ranking

ILLINOIS — Twenty-six hospitals have been ranked the best in Illinois in a new report from Newsweek.

Rush University Medical Center, whose main campus is located on Harrison Street west of Chicago's Loop, is the top-ranked hospital in Illinois in Newsweek and data partner Statista’s America’s Best In-State Hospitals 2025 ranking of more than 700 medical centers nationwide.

Other Illinois hospitals, listed in ranked order, include:

2. Northwestern Memorial Hospital , Chicago
3. Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital, Winfield
4. University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago
5. Evanston Hospital
6. Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood
7. Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital, McHenry
8. Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital, Downers Grove
9. Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge
10. Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital, Barrington
11. Elmhurst Hospital
12. Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital, Lake Forest
13. Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital, Geneva
14. Edward Hospital, Naperville
15. Ascension Alexian Brothers, Elk Grove Village
16. Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Chicago
17. Silver Cross Hospital, New Lenox
18. UChicago Medicine AdventHealth Hinsdale
19. Advocate Christ Medical Center, Oak Lawn
20. Riverside Medical Center, Kankakee
21. Carle BroMenn Medical Center, Normal
22. SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital, Centralia
23. Advocate Sherman Hospital, Elgin
24. Memorial Hospital Belleville
25. Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital, DeKalb
26. John H. Stoger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Chicago

The 2025 best in-state hospitals list features medical facilities in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The hospitals were ranked based on quality metrics from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and national surveys, including:

• The American Hospital Association’s Annual Survey of Hospitals Database, an online nationwide survey among medical professionals;
• Results from Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems patient-experience surveys; and
• Voluntary implementation surveys on PROMs (patient-reported outcome measures).