Egg donation/Chicago IVF
Verified October 1, 2026
Chicago IVF Egg Donor Pay & Requirements
Clinic
At a glance
Where and travel
- 4 clinics in IL, IN: Orland Park, St. Charles, Valparaiso, Munster
- In-house clinic
Requirements
- Age 21–32 and healthy (PDF booklet Prospective Egg Donor Information)
- BMI Not published
- Drug-use screening as part of donor workup (PDF)
- Genetic screening
- Psychological screening
- Careful medical, psychological, genetic and family history
- Hormonal testing; blood and cultures for STIs; drug-use screening
- Mandatory screening by staff psychologist
- Anonymous preferred; known donors considered
- Soft preference: preferably those who already have children and no history of infertility (egg-donation page)
- Donor required to have own health insurance (PDF consent)
Time
- Not quantified as overall months on HTML; cycle steps listed on become page
Not published: Pay
Pay
Donor-page amounts, verified October 1, 2026.
Outside the stipend
- Expenses covered
- Medications part of cycle process — donor OOP $ Not published; Donor must have own health insurance; complications liability on donor per PDF consent — clinic $ Not published
Not published: First cycle
Where and when
Where
- Headquarters
- Orland Park, IL
- Clinic locations
- Orland Park, IL, St. Charles, IL, Valparaiso, IN, Munster, IN
Time
- Monitoring and downtime
- Not quantified as overall months on HTML; cycle steps listed on become page
Do you qualify
Requirements
- Age
- 21–32 and healthy (PDF booklet Prospective Egg Donor Information)
- BMI
- Not published
- Also required
- Drug-use screening as part of donor workup (PDF)
- careful medical, psychological, genetic and family history
- hormonal testing; blood and cultures for STIs; drug-use screening
- mandatory screening by staff psychologist
- anonymous preferred; known donors considered
- soft preference: preferably those who already have children and no history of infertility (egg-donation page)
- donor required to have own health insurance (PDF consent)
Screening
- Psychological screening
- Yes
- Genetic screening
- Yes
- Screening steps
- Physical exam; labs; hormonal; STI; drug screen; genetic/family history; psychologist
How it works
Steps
- Matching
- In-house expansive donor database for IPs; characteristics-based matching; also partners with My Egg Bank
- Application
- Written application (EDC CTA) → physical exam & laboratory clearance → acceptance → match → suppression meds → fertility meds → ultrasound/lab monitoring → retrieval
- Donor coordinator
- Cheryl Tropsic (Egg Donation Coordinator) per PDF; eggdonor@chicagoivf.com
Covered and limits
- Medications
- Yes
- Insurance
- Yes
- Identity
- Anonymous preferred; known donors considered (PDF + egg-donation confidentiality language)
- Fresh cycles
- Yes
- Frozen cycles
- Yes
- Also offers surrogacy
- Yes
Apply and contact
- Website
- Agency site
- Phone
- (866) 483-2446
- eggdonor@chicagoivf.com
- Program type
- Clinic
Sources
- live-verify primary become-an-egg-donor (process/apply CTA/email) · 2026-09-30
- live-verify primary egg-donation hub (fresh+frozen/My Egg Bank/soft prefs) · 2026-09-30
- live-verify primary donor PDF booklet (age 21–32; compensation call-for-current; ARHC) · 2026-09-30
- live-verify primary homepage (locations/phone) · 2026-09-30
- live-verify primary donor-egg-recipient · 2026-09-30
- EDC secondary pointer (fresh/apply EDC/website/Orland Park address) · 2026-09-30
Last verified October 1, 2026.
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