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Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago expands search for new home.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, November, 2004

By Bruce Japsen, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Nov. 4--Children's Memorial Hospital confirmed Wednesday it is expanding its search for a location for a replacement hospital beyond the boundaries of Lincoln Park -- its home for more than 120 years.

The hospital said staying in Lincoln Park remains a possibility, but congestion and additional space needed required officials to look elsewhere in Chicago's downtown area north of the Chicago River.

"We definitely know we want to be in the city. But ... we realize we need to expand our boundaries," said Children's spokeswoman Kathleen Ellis of the cramped 265-bed location at the intersection of Lincoln Avenue and Fullerton Parkway. "We are not only building a hospital...

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