Children's Memorial expansion OK'd
Posted February 06, 2008 10:00 pm
The Chicago City Council has approved plans by Children's Memorial Hospital to build a new 22-story facility downtown.
The new facility would be called the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, in recognition of a $100 million gift from philanthropist Ann Lurie.
Like the original Children's Memorial Hospital on the North Side, it will have a heliport on its roof. The site of the new building is on the campus of Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine.
Children's Memorial President and CEO Patrick Magoon says the new hospital should open in 2012 pending further government approval.