Drug treatment center seeks to open in Elburn mansion
Elburn trustees will decide Monday whether a drug- and alcohol-abuse treatment center can move into a mansion on the north side of town.
Miami Beach Holistic Addictions Treatment Center LLC wants to open a 40-bed center on the former Great Lakes Leadership Campus at 526 N. Main St.
It needs a special use permit to do so, because the 10-acre site is zoned for residential use.
The plan commission April 4 recommended the plan.
The facility would be called the Illinois Holistic Addictions Treatment Center.
The company's chief operating officer, Thomas Dean, told plan commissioners it would only take patients who volunteer to be admitted, not anybody ordered by a court.
The property includes a 19-room mansion, built in 1897 for lumber businessman John Stewart.
After Stewart died, the mansion was empty for years and fell in to disrepair. The Fellowship Deaconry, a Protestant religious organization, bought it in 1950 and used it as a convalescent center, and a youth home, catering to German immigrants.
In 1989, SonLife Ministries bought it and used it as a Christian educational retreat center. It also rented the mansion to other groups and for weddings.
Great Lakes Church of God then bought it, and used it for much the same purpose.
The Miami Beach facility has been open since 2010, and received accreditation in 2016 from the nonprofit Joint Commission, which reviews the quality of health care organizations.
The board meets at 6:45 p.m. at the village hall, 301 E. North St.