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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


Updated: Preservationists sue Commission of Chicago Landmarks over Prentice decision

November 15, 2012

Update, 4 p.m. Thursday: A Cook County judge handed down a preliminary ruling in favor of preservationists this afternoon and granted temporary landmark status to Prentice Women’s Hospital. The...

The Commission on Chicago Landmarks is expected to decide Thursday whether to recommend landmark status for the former site of Prentice Women's Hospital. The designation would make it harder for Northwestern to demolish the old building to make way for a new research facility.

In Focus: After decades-spanning strife, fate of former Prentice site nears

October 31, 2012

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday endorsed Northwestern’s plan to demolish the old Prentice Women’s Hospital and build a new biomedical research facility, lending one of the most authoritative...

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