Restoring Cook County Hospital
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I've driven by this place for decades. Kinda neat to see it getting a new lease on life.
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Great old building...Haunted, I'm sure.
Wish they'd do something with the second largest public health hispital...
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Very cool. I didn’t realize it wasn’t in use anymore. It was still open when I left Chicago in 94.
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@Jolly said in Restoring Cook County Hospital:
Great old building...Haunted, I'm sure.
Wish they'd do something with the second largest public health hispital...
From wiki:
“It was the second oldest continuously operated public hospital in the United States. Only Bellevue Hospital in New York City is older, having been founded a month earlier, on March 31, 1736“
How funny is that, 2nd largest and second oldest. Also a mere month after Bellevue
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Licensed for 3000+ beds at one time...
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My old hospital still sits empty. It was built in the 1930's and has a few nice art deco details. I talked with one of the engineers evaluating the building and he said because of the method of construction, the building has at least another 200 years in it. The problem was that it needed to be gutted and replumbed, rewired, etc.
Sometimes I shake my head at the stupidity of the state. They rent multiple buildings and office space in various locations all over the metro area, when they own an empty three story building with a huge amount of parking space and a detached warehouse.
And like many of these old buildings across the country, the architecture beats the sugar out of the modern glass box.
Hats off to Chicago for bringing a grand old building back to life...
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Back to Big Charity...Again, a building the State needs to get off of their butts about.
It's in downtown New Orleans, with a skybridge to Tulane Hospital across the street. The biggest problem with the building is the physical plant, which is in the basement. Any renovation would need to move that.
Question is, what should be done with that huge building?
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@Jolly said in Restoring Cook County Hospital:
Sometimes I shake my head at the stupidity of the state.
Last time I rode the streetcar up Canal St., I marveled at Charity. What a great building, and what a waste to see her just sitting there. It's been closed since Katrina, iirc.
Cook County sat vacant for almost 20 years.
Also, I don't think Chicago had much to do with the restoration. It looks like most of it was private enterprise. I think the building was owned by the county, not the city, too.
From 2016:
https://abc7chicago.com/cook-county-hospital-restoration-renovation-apartments/1279708/
Private developers plan to transform the historic building, which has sat empty for over a decade. Cook County Board President Tony Preckwinkle says it's because the real estate market has finally picked up.
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle estimates that the total investment will be roughly $1 billion from “private sources,” she said, meaning no county dollars are going into the project.
It’ll also create about 900 jobs during the redevelopment process, from the construction phase to the end, a Preckwinkle spokeswoman said.
I know many docs that trained there. Like Charity, I assume, it was "see one, do one, teach one" most of the time. If you survived the residency, you were probably a pretty good surgeon.
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- I know many docs that trained there. Like Charity, I assume, it was "see one, do one, teach one" most of the time. If you survived the residency, you were probably a pretty good surgeon. *
It was often said a resident would see more at Charity Hospital in his residency, than he would see in his first twenty years of practice. The eye doc my wife worked for used to say Charity prepared him for finishing school in Vietnam (Flight Surgeon in USAF).
Not long before Katrina closed her, they set a record for number of people in the ED at one time...It was over 800, with multiple traumas being treated at the same time. Great place for an adrenaline junkie.
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@George-K
I hope they're creating a longer video about the restoration. What a great project. I love this kind of thing. Hubby does, too. We would watch a mini-series on this, and there would be enough history and reno story to make a series out of it.
