Fertility Centers of Illinois (FCI) — one of the Midwest's largest and most established fertility networks — operates a Highland Park location at 767 Park Avenue West, Suite 190, serving patients along Chicago's North Shore. FCI has long been a dominant presence in the Illinois fertility market, with physicians practicing across multiple Chicago-area locations that collectively treat thousands of patients annually. Patients exploring fertility care across Illinois can view additional providers in the Illinois fertility clinics directory.
The Highland Park location's website association with Northwestern Medicine's Highland Park fertility page reflects the geographic proximity of both practices to the North Shore medical corridor — these are distinct organizations, however, operating at different addresses on the same stretch of Highland Park. Patients should confirm their appointment is at the correct location (767 Park Ave W for FCI, versus 600 Central Ave for Northwestern Medicine) when scheduling.
Physicians and Clinical Team
Fertility Centers of Illinois employs a large team of board-certified reproductive endocrinologists across its network of Chicago-area locations. FCI's physician roster has historically included some of the region's most experienced fertility specialists, many of whom have academic affiliations and active research programs. The network model allows FCI physicians to rotate across sites, giving patients at Highland Park access to the full depth of the FCI physician group.
FCI's integrated team includes reproductive endocrinologists, an in-house embryology staff managing one of the Midwest's largest IVF laboratories, genetic counselors, nursing staff specialized in fertility cycle coordination, reproductive urologists (through partnerships), and financial counselors with expertise in Illinois insurance mandate navigation.
The network's scale means FCI has dedicated staff for LGBTQ+ family building, oncofertility (fertility preservation for cancer patients), third-party reproduction (donor egg, gestational carrier), and complex recurrent pregnancy loss cases.
Services and Treatments
FCI's Highland Park location offers the full spectrum of the network's fertility services:
- Comprehensive fertility evaluation for individuals and couples
- Ovarian reserve testing (AMH, FSH, antral follicle count)
- Semen analysis and male fertility workup
- Ovulation induction with oral and injectable medications
- Intrauterine insemination (IUI)
- In vitro fertilization (IVF) — fresh and frozen embryo transfer cycles
- Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)
- Preimplantation genetic testing (PGT-A, PGT-M, PGT-SR)
- Egg and embryo cryopreservation
- Elective egg freezing for fertility preservation
- Oncofertility — fertility preservation for patients facing cancer treatment
- Donor egg recipient cycles (fresh and frozen egg sources)
- Gestational carrier coordination
- Recurrent pregnancy loss evaluation and management
- LGBTQ+ family-building pathways
FCI's volume across its network locations provides the scale needed to maintain active donor egg programs, gestational carrier relationships, and the laboratory throughput required for high-quality outcomes at every cycle stage.
Laboratory and Success Rates
FCI operates one of the larger IVF laboratories in the Midwest, with rigorous quality control protocols, continuous culture environment management, and vitrification cryopreservation. The laboratory team's depth — including multiple senior embryologists — provides capacity and redundancy that smaller practices may not match.
Patients should review the most current cycle-level data published by the CDC's ART Surveillance program and the SART Clinic Summary Report.
FCI's high cycle volume makes its outcomes data statistically robust — a larger sample size means published success rates are more reliable predictors of future performance than figures from lower-volume clinics.
Patient Experience
The 767 Park Avenue West location in Highland Park is convenient for North Shore residents and accessible from US-41 and the Metra Union Pacific North Line. The clinic's suburban setting offers easy parking and a quieter environment compared to FCI's busier downtown Chicago and Northbrook locations.
As one of the Chicago area's largest fertility networks, FCI has invested in patient experience infrastructure: an online patient portal, telemedicine consultation options, early morning monitoring appointment slots, and dedicated patient navigators. The network's size also means more scheduling flexibility across locations — if Highland Park's morning slots are full, other suburban FCI locations may have availability.
Patients at FCI's network locations report varying experiences based on their primary physician's communication style and the specific nursing team at their home clinic. Asking during your initial consultation about the team's philosophy on patient communication and follow-up is worthwhile.
Considering At-Home Insemination?
Not every fertility journey begins in a clinic. At-home intracervical insemination (ICI) is a lower-cost, private option that suits patients with no known fertility diagnosis — including single parents by choice, same-sex couples, and people who want to try a few cycles before committing to clinical treatment.
At-home insemination kits like those from MakeAMom come with step-by-step instructions designed for donor or partner sperm. Kits are a one-time purchase that can be reused until conception succeeds, require no clinic visit, and arrive in plain, discreet packaging. Many patients use them as a first step while working toward a fertility consultation — or alongside ovulation tracking while they wait for an appointment slot.
If you have a known fertility diagnosis, have been trying for 12 months without success (six months if you're over 35), or your physician has already recommended IUI or IVF, a board-certified reproductive endocrinologist is the right next step.
Insurance and Financing
Illinois mandates comprehensive fertility coverage for group health plans covering 25 or more employees — including IVF and related treatments. FCI has extensive experience working within the Illinois mandate framework and can assist patients with insurance verification, prior authorization, and billing across major Illinois carriers including Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois, Aetna, Cigna, UnitedHealthcare, and others.
Self-funded ERISA employer plans are exempt from the Illinois mandate. Verify your plan type before assuming coverage applies. FCI's financial counselors are accustomed to helping patients navigate the mandate-versus-ERISA distinction and can often identify coverage options that patients initially assumed were unavailable.
For self-pay patients or those with limited benefits, FCI offers multi-cycle packages, shared-risk programs, and financing partnerships through third-party healthcare lenders.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is FCI Highland Park the same as the Northwestern Medicine fertility clinic nearby? No. These are two distinct organizations at separate addresses in Highland Park. Fertility Centers of Illinois (767 Park Ave W, Suite 190) is an independent multi-location fertility network. Northwestern Medicine Fertility and Reproductive Medicine (600 Central Ave, Suite 333) is affiliated with Northwestern University's health system. They share geographic proximity but are otherwise unrelated. Confirm your appointment address and physician when scheduling.
Does FCI accept patients without an infertility diagnosis who are pursuing elective egg freezing? Yes. FCI offers elective egg cryopreservation for patients who want to preserve future fertility options regardless of current fertility diagnosis. The process uses the same stimulation and retrieval protocol as IVF. FCI's scale means the practice has dedicated programming for elective freeze patients, including financial counseling on the economics of storing frozen eggs long-term.
How does FCI handle LGBTQ+ patients and single parents? FCI has dedicated LGBTQ+ family-building pathways for same-sex female couples pursuing IUI or IVF with donor sperm, same-sex male couples pursuing gestational carrier arrangements, and single individuals using donor gametes. The network has experience with the insurance and legal considerations specific to these family-building scenarios.
What shared-risk or refund programs does FCI offer? FCI offers multi-cycle programs that provide a partial refund if a specified number of IVF cycles do not result in a live birth. Eligibility criteria (typically based on age and ovarian reserve) apply, and the cost per guaranteed-cycle program is higher than individual cycle pricing. Ask FCI's financial counselors for the current program terms and whether you qualify.