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May 1, 2020 · However, McCormick Place has treated just 29 patients — and plans to expand the facility to 3,000 beds were scaled back. Through April 16, the city has spent $64.8 million on the McCormick Place field hospital, according to city records.
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May 1, 2020 · CHICAGO — The city has already started making plans for how to take down the field hospital set up at McCormick Place. The famous convention center was turned into a field hospital — or, as officials called it, an alternate care facility — that officials planned could have up to 3,000 hospital beds.
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May 4, 2020 · The McCormick Place field hospital is being phased out. Chicago-area hospitals have not been overwhelmed by the coronavirus pandemic, so the city no longer sees a need for the “alternate care ...
May 7, 2020 · Construction at the COVID-19 field hospital at McCormick Place in Chicago on April 10. The city pared back plans for a 3,000-bed temporary hospital at the nation's largest convention center as ...
Apr 4, 2020 · Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Friday re-christened Chicago's McCormick Place Convention Center as a field hospital for COVID-19 cases and publicly hoped it wouldn't be needed.The two leaders saw the first 500 of what will be a 3,000-bed “alternative care facility” to relieve.
Aug 14, 2020 · Posted August 14, 2020 1:00 am. By Tim Novak and Robert Herguth Chicago Sun-Times. Taxpayers spent nearly $66 million fashioning McCormick Place into an emergency coronavirus hospital with 2,750 ...
Mar 27, 2020 · The temporary health site at McCormick Place will function as a field hospital, providing a large quantity of beds, including 500 anticipated to come online in the coming week.
