City officials are entertaining the possibility of tearing down nearly all of the Michael Reese Hospital campus for a planned Olympic Village, including structures partly designed by eminent 20th Century architect Walter Gropius as well as a 102-year-old Prairie School hospital building that Chicago 2016 officials indicated they would spare, historic preservationists said Wednesday. Full report from Blair Kamin's blog
Chicago's Michael Reese Hospital. (Nancy Stone/Tribune)
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