For most of a century starting in 1916, the massive Cook County Hospital opened its healing hallways to wave upon wave of new and often destitute Chicagoans. European immigrants came first, followed ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- It was the first hospital to provide care for the poor, the first blood bank in the nation, the first place to care for AIDS patients and the setting for the television show "ER." ...

A operation theater inside the former Cook County Hospital, neglected from many years, still awaits renovation. A hotel room at the former Cook County Hospital. A portion of the renovated hospital ...

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