“There is a lot of hope and anticipation on the 4th Ward about this,”Ald. William Donnell, 4th Ward, said.
Copley Hospital operated at the site from the late 1800s until 1994, when it moved to its new campus — now the Rush-Copley Medical Center — on Ogden Avenue.
Since the hospital left, the old hospital site, which is actually nine buildings built during different y