CHICAGO | Cook County has paid more than $12.1 million during the last three years to maintain the vacant, dilapidated Cook County Hospital. From mid-December 2002 through July 2005, the county was ...
The old Cook County Hospital has been gone for more than 20 years, but those of us who were staff members, patients or visitors there remember the vast, open 40-bed wards, with no privacy or central ...