A Doctor of Call in
Lake View Township Department
of Health Rules
by 1886
#13 Hospitals and Quarantine
Developments
After Annexation of 1889
text - Chicago Medical Society 1910 Lake View Area Hospitals:
Marine Hospital
for Sailors & Soldiers
Township/City of Lake View
the Federal military Hospital for the Chicago area
1872-1965
My next post is on this particular subject
postcard dated 1912 - Ebay
Township of Lake View
735 W Fullerton Avenue
first hospital for children only
just south of Fullerton Avenue from the District of Lake View
Fullerton Avenue was the border between old Lake View and the City of Chicago before 1889
image - Lincoln Park by Melaine Apel
Children’s Memorial Hospital was founded in 1884 as the
Maurice Porter Memorial Hosptial, an eight-bed cottage at Halsted and Belden.
The city’s first hospital dedicated to children, it was started by wealthy,
philanthropic widow Julia Foster Porter. Porter was a reclusive woman who wore
all black, the result of losing her father, husband and son in the span of six
years. She named the hospital after her firstborn son who died at 13 years old
of acute rheumatism.
image - Lincoln Park by Melaine Apel
This hospital had two initial locations, Belden and Halsted and then 909 W Fullerton Avenue between 1892 and 1897
both in area of Lincoln Park
images - History of Medicine and Surgery 1922
and then it moved
again to became ....
Children's Memorial Hospital
images - History of Medicine and Surgery 1922
to be renamed
due to the First World War
and then renamed again to
Lincoln Park Hospital
pre 1909 address of 1629 = 731 post 1909 address
postcard - via Alexandra Tibble
1911 advertisement - Alexandra Tibble
Should the Child been Saved?
Chicago General Hospital
Lake View Township
initially called
Home of Incurables in 1887
by 1950 it was called
Pinel Santiarium
*same location but several name changes*
images - History of Medicine and Surgery 19221887 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map 1891 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map 1894 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map name change to
National Temperance Hospital
& Santiarium
1923 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map another name change to
Chicago General Hospital
District of Lake View
renamed
Frank Cuneo Memorial Hospital
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postcard images - Chicago History in Postcards image - History of Medicine & Surgery 1922
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Once located on the northwest corner area of Montrose and Clarendon avenues. A Frank Cuneo, Jr. donated the original building to Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, an organization founded by Mother Francis Xavier Cabrini, a saint in the Roman Catholic Church. By 1957 the hospital expanded east across the street on Clarendon Avenue

this building would be ulimately be replaced by the
Maryville Academy by the 1970's
The Newer Hospital
Frank Cuneo Memorial Hospital, a 140-bed women and
children’s hospital, was dedicated by Cardinal Stritch in 1957 in a
ceremony attended by Mayor Richard J. Daley. The hospital was built for the
Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart, who also built Columbus Hospital at
2520 N. Lakeview. The hospital was endowed first by Frank Cuneo and then by his
son John F. Cuneo, Sr. John Cuneo.
(University of Illinois at Chicago) 1958
Chicago - Photographic Images of Change
(University of Illinois at Chicago) 1958
the bridge that connect the initial hospital with the then new annex
photos below - Ebay
2009 Google Views
view northeast of Cuneo Hospital view below northwest
of the Columbus/Maryville Academy, the former space
of the Lake View Hospital
1891-1903
District of Lake View
to be called
Columbus Hospital
The original building was constructed in 1890, one years after the City of Lake View was annexed to the City of Chicago. It was located on the southeast corner of Deming and Lake View Avenue.
1891 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map
a former hotel
1894 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map
zoomed below1923 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map Columbus Hospital
1905-20012520 N Lake View Avenue
and still the home of Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini Chapelbut now a location for residential living
text - History of Medicine and Surgery 1922
A 1909 postcard from the Chuckman Collection
The Chapel and her Apartment
postcard - Ebay
Frances Cabrini, a Catholic saint as of 1946 after her death in 1917, made her presence at this hospital
1959 photo - Art Institute of Chicago
After ten years of negotiations
the shrine was saved
and the new condo development was realized
page - East Lake View by Matthew Nickerson
The Shrine video
images - YouTube
photo below - Catholic New World the chapel/shine was once part of the hospital itself and owned by the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus not the hospital
District of Lake View
postcard - Ebay
I contend when the Lincoln Park Sanitarium became Columbus Hospital the Chicago Daily News decided to build and open their own sanitarium along the newly land-filled area of Lincoln Park
images - History of Medicine and Surgery 1922

1929 aerial view - Chicago History Museum
via Explore Chicago Collection
Established in 1887 when Lake View citizens voted for a city charter (1887-1889) was the establishment of the Chicago Daily News 'open-aired' sanitarium. The property was located north of Fullerton Avenue and at the time north of Lincoln Park, the park before park was land-filled northward. One of the most common and pervasive approaches for people with the most common pulmonary diesease was the treatment of rest
and fresh air of patients.
1903 lakefront view - Chicago History Museum
via Explore Chicago Collection - reversed negative image
1902 front yard view - Chicago History Museum
via Explore Chicago Collection - reversed negative image
and below a 1907 inside view - Chicago History Museum
via Explore Chicago Collection - reversed negative image
View more photos
Kenner's Charitable Hospital
once located between Sheridan Road
and (inner) Lake Shore Drive on Briar Place
*farm sought foods was the key for recovery*
This hospital struggled with zoning and federal tax issues from 1944 to 1955. This hospital was rezoned and later converted from an stately mansion estate to a hospital and then to high-rise residential building. All the buildings within the concrete wall was razed by 1959 to make way for the skyscaper of a building.
(My Facebook Album)
Not all Nieghbors are Happy
about a Hospital in 1947
Lost a tax break in 1955
District of Lake View
1931 W Wilson Avenue
a tale of endless expansion
and a failure policy
the original building

image - Illinois Medical Directory 1910
text image - History of Medicine and Surgery 1922
postcard - Ebay
photo album page - Frank McGuire via Historic Chicago-Facebook
Fred Kissner was the photographer
This hospital had a bright future and then suddenly an unforgiving end. View the articles and links below about its history that finally resulted was its' demolition.
1951 a nursing school
1961 another expansion
1964 and another expansion
health care facility in 1991
The Beginning of the End
In 1998 this hospital failed a young man in need.
According this article 'One friend ran inside the hospital and got two police officers to rush to Christopher’s aid. The officers and witnesses begged hospital staff to assist, but they demurred citing hospital policy that forbid them to exit the building. The officers on scene were also bound by protocol to not move injured people and wait for paramedics. At 6:23pm a request for an ambulance went out over police radio. Ignoring protocol one of the officers finally commandeered a wheelchair and rushed Christopher into the emergency room with a barely detectable pulse.' Christophers' death received US presidential admonishment according to Jet magazine in 1998. Ravenswood Hospital CEO John Blair got an earful from
employees and local residents in the weeks after he announced a proposed merger
between Advocate Health Care, which owns Ravenswood, and Illinois Masonic
Medical Center. Blair took great pains to point out that this wasn’t just a
merger between his hospital and Illinois Masonic, but that the two were the
biggest hospitals in what Advocate envisioned as a new “multisite
health-delivery system for the North Side.” He explained, “The driving factor behind the deal is
declining reimbursement, from federal and state government as well as HMOs and
PPOs. Although we have cut our costs, we’re projected to lose $24 million over
the next five years. At Illinois Masonic that figure is $30 million over the
same period. That’s not a viable economic model.” - TheeErin/Flickr 2000
2013
It's Replacement
In the late summer or early fall of 2015, if all goes
according to plans, the doors will open on a new, multi-story, dual-language
French and English international school near the corner of Damen and Wilson
avenues in Chicago’s Ravenswood neighborhood. The school’s address will be 1929
W. Wilson Ave., which is just east of Damen, at the site of the former
Ravenswood Hospital. Construction of the new school campus is set to begin next
month. (The school is operating now, and has been for almost 20 years, on the
lakefront near the intersection of Irving Park Rd. and Marine Dr., at 613 W.
Bittersweet Place.) The name of the school, the Lycée Français de Chicago,
literally translates from French as “the French High School of Chicago.”
However, this school, which was started by a small group of international
parents in Chicago in 1995, has much broader ambitions: the school teaches
toddlers as young as 3, all the way up to teenagers of 17 or 18 ready for
college.


A Rebirth of the Hospital Space
in 2019
669 W Irving Park Road
District of Lake View
Dr. Samuel Burrows founded the Burrow's Hospital and held the title of head surgeon. The hospital was established in 1927 and apparently closed by the mid 20th century. According to a 1930 Chicago Daily News article his father Thomas (retired?) was also a doctor who resided in the same hospital, former hotel, til his death in September 1930.
1950 Sanborn Fire Map - top left corner 1923 Sanborn Fire Map
The hospital was the former Irving-Pine HotelThe American Hospital
850 W Irving Park Road District of Lake View
currently the location of
Thorek Hospital
images - History of Medicine and Surgery 1922
North Chicago Hospital
2551 N Clark Street
District of Lake View
Community of Lincoln Park
to become
Illinois Children Hospital
images - History of Medicine and Surgery 1922
1923 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map
2565-2551 N Clark
1950 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map Illinois Children Hospital
much narrow property space
District of Lake View
once associate to the Illinois Masonic Hospital
image - History of Medicine and Surgery 1922
photo - Chicago History in Postcards
The building is still located on Belmont west of Broadway
This training hospital was named after John Benjamin Murphy who advocated his professional life in the treatment of appendicitis to prevent complications. He performed one of the first operations in early acute appendicitis in 1889. Once located at 628 W Belmont Avenue the 'Lake View Hospital Association & Training School for Nurses' was established as early as 1910.
New Name for Nursing Hospital in 1921
once part of the
Union Hospital
that was purchased by
Illinois Masonic Hospital Association
booklet is part of my personal collection


1923 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map
sold to the Sisters of Mercy
in 1928
Closed and Re-used 1940
1950 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map
new name of the building
Sister of Mercy Principal House
currently rentals
Advocate
initially called the
Chicago Union Hospital
The newly formed Illinois Masonic Hospital Association,
a Masonic organization purchased Chicago Union Hospital from the Belden Avenue Baptist Church in 1921 image - History of Medicine and Surgery 1910
photo via York W Chan built in 1901 The 1901 hospital burned down and was ultimately
replaced with a brick building in 1908/09
An Initial Rendering
of the Future Property in 1903
1908 postcard - my personal collection
Too Close to a Public School in 1907
WWI holds Future Construction in 1918
Billing Invoices
3010 Soult Street
Soult Street would became Florence
that would become Dayton Street
and below via York W Chan
Enter the
Illinois Masonic Hospital
text - History of Medicine and Surgery 1922
1933 photo above via York W Chan
1923 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map Beginning modestly when a caring company of men and
women, members of a Baptist Sunday School Class, resolved to build a hospital
to meet the health needs of their community, the hospital emerged into a major
Masonic enterprise dedicated to healing of the ills of humankind. "When it
became obvious that the hospital enterprise involved more than could be managed
by members of a well-intentioned Sunday School Class, most of them were Masons
or members of the Eastern Star, leaders of the hospital turned to the Masonic
Order. It was a fortuitous development since Masons were planning to develop a
hospital to provide care for their own, and in 1921 purchased the Union
Hospital and named it Illinois Masonic Hospital. - The Burning Taper
A Pictorial History
photographed from the 1st floor
of 836 Wellington building's hallway
photos - Garry Albrecht
also shown is Morris Elementary School (demolished)
expansion photos
construction of building # 6 1958
photos - UIC via Explore Chicago
1960's photo below - Illinois Lodge of Research
a care unit for HIV patients
M.K. Czerwiec worked at Illinois Masonic Hospital's
dedicated HIV/AIDS ward, known as Unit 371, from 1994-2000, her first job out
of nursing school—and it definitely changed her life.
"Who I am today is profoundly informed by the time I
spent in that place and the people I met there," Czerwiec said.
"Around 2005, when I wanted to learn some details about Unit 371 that I
didn't know, such as how it started, I felt certain that a simple Internet
search would reveal great stories of this place. But there was nothing. I
couldn't find any information about it. So I decided that, as part of my
Master's [degree] in Medical Humanities and Bioethics at Northwestern, I would
begin the process of documenting the history of Unit 371. Unit 371 became a model for AIDS units at medical centers
across the U.S. This medical unit was the creation of two men - David Blatt & David Moore
University of Illinois-Chicago,City 2000 collection
the old parking lot is currently the site
of Center for Advanced Care
photos - Lake View Patch
Plans for Future in 2013


photo - SmithGroupJJR
This institution is recognized for its care for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender patients across the array of medical needs
and emergency services.
2013 photo - Lake View Patch
2013 photos below - Lake View Patch
The new Center for Advanced Care building on Barry Avenue
The Medical Campus
Google Earth view 2016
A New Parking Tower in 2020
with noice protection wall from the Redline
images via Tom Tunney's 44th ward offices 
Hospital Gets Larger for 2022
November 2021
2022 Google Earth View
referred by the locals as simply
St. Joe's
Township of Lake View
District of Lake View
Community of Lake View
Opening the doors to what was then known as Providence
Hospital in a converted summer house near what is now the intersection of Clark
Street and Diversey Avenue in what was then the town[ship] of Lake View in June 30,
1869. It was predated by Mercy Hospital, which opened near Rush Street and the
Chicago River in 1852. By the time the Daughters of Charity opened their
hospital, Mercy had relocated to the South Side. The Daughters of Charity
hospital — named St. Joseph when it opened its first purpose-built building at
what is now Burling Street and Dickens Avenue — is celebrating its 150th
anniversary this year. - Chicago Catholic
of the area
text above - History of Medicine and Surgery 1922
About the Move
to Burling Street
text below - Illinois Medical Directory 1910
Garfield = Dickens
by what is now near OZ Park
postcard - Chicago History in Postcards
1892 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map
Cornerstone Cememory
in 1871
About the Move to Diversey Parkway in 1959
The Original Design
by Belli & Belli 1956-57

photo - Friends of Cuneo-Facebook
The Building on the Corner
And across the street on the northwest corner of Diversey Parkway and Sheridan Road was once the Amalgamated Meat Cutters International & Butcher Workmen Headquarters that is presently used by the hospital as office space.
postcard - Chuckman Collection
Amalgamated Meat Cutters International & Butcher Workmen Headquarters was associated with the
Stock Yards and meatpacking industry
photos - Photographic Images of Change
(University of Illinois at Chicago)
1959 - from Greg Russell, Forgotten Chicago on Facebook
The building was sold to St. Joseph's in 1980
2022 Google Earth View
Post Notes:
The Pandemic Covid-19


On Dec. 31, 2019, Chinese authorities alerted the World
Health Organization of pneumonia cases in Wuhan City, Hubei province, China,
with an unknown cause. What started as a mystery disease was first referred to
as 2019-nCoV and then named COVID-19.
At that time, nearly 120,000 cases and 4,000 deaths from
the virus had been reported across 118 countries. COVID-19 had just started to
take a grip in the United States, leading to the first-known cases and deaths
just weeks before the calendar flipped to March. When the WHO declared COVID-19
as a pandemic, there were many unknowns about the virus itself and its
ramifications on public health, but the main focus was to limit its spread and
severity of illness. Ultimately, the declaration came with a realization that
the novel coronavirus would be unavoidable for months to come and possibly
longer. By the end of the week, COVID-19′s impact could be felt in several
aspects of life, including education, business, politics, sports and
entertainment. Mask mandates and virus testing had not yet been the norm, but
cities began shutting down, employers shifted to remote working and school
closures piled up in efforts to limit the spread. - KY3
No Baseball for awhile
a 2020 report from WGN
Wrigley Field is chipping in
CHICAGO – Without any sports to host, venues are finding
a new and important purpose during the COVID-19 pandemic. The United Center has
been up and running as a logistics hub for the past few weeks, with boxes
filling up a floor on which the Bulls and Blackhawks would normally compete on
at this time of the year. Wrigley Field would be in the first month of hosting
games for the Cubs during the 2020 season, but due to the pandemic, it sits
empty as the middle of April approaches. On Tuesday, the Cubs announce that
Wrigley Field along with neighboring Hotel Zachary will be used in the local
COVID-19 response efforts over the coming weeks or months. The concourse of the
ballpark will be used as food packing and distribution center for Lakeview
Pantry. This effort will start this week and take place every Monday-Saturday
from 9 AM to 4 PM for the foreseeable future. This Saturday, the pantry will
begin distribution services at Wrigley Field and will continue every Tuesday
and Saturday until further notice. As for Hotel Zachary, it will serve as a
host for health care workers from now until April 30th for health care workers
at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center. Each worker will keep the same
room the entire time and be allowed to have food delivered to the hotel. - WGN
Boystown is in
Shelter-in-Place
like the rest of the city
From the Chamber of Commerce
News in April 16, 2020

From Shelter-in-Place
to Re-opening with Guidelines
in June 2020


“Since COVID-19 arrived in Chicago, we have been guided
by the data when making decisions about necessary steps to protect people and
keep from overwhelming our healthcare system,” said CDPH Commissioner Allison
Arwady, M.D. “This doesn’t mean COVID is gone, it simply means transmission
levels are lower than they have been during surges. I still encourage people to
take precautions and definitely get vaccinated to protect yourself and your
loved ones.” The vaccine requirement for restaurants, bars, gyms and other indoor
public settings where food and beverages are served went into effect on January
3 in response to the alarming rise in COVID-19 cases both locally and
nationally, driven in part by the Omicron variant. More Chicagoans were hospitalized with
COVID-19 during the Omicron surge than at any prior point in the pandemic and
the great majority of these hospitalizations were in unvaccinated
Chicagoans. Masks will continue to be
required in health care settings, on public transit, and in other congregate
settings. As the City transitions its mitigation measures to remove the mask
requirement, many Chicagoans will continue to wear masks in public spaces for a
variety of reasons, even if they are vaccinated. For example, after 5 days of
isolation or quarantine, masks will continue to be required in days 6-10 in
public spaces, as they are now. - City of Chicago
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