Chicago Lakeshore Hospital history

Friction between them and regular medical practitioners became a political battle in 1857, when the former sought representation on the medical staff of what was to be the new city hospital at 18th and LaSalle streets.

The Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary began in 1858 under the direction of ophthalmologist Edward Lorenzo Holmes.

The argument prevented the institution from opening until 1859, when Rush faculty members rented it for use as a private hospital.

Lutheran pastor William Passavant established the 15-bed Deaconess Hospital at Dearborn and Ontario Streets in 1865.

The Sisters of Charity began St Joseph's Hospital in Lake View in 1868.

As the number of charity cases grew, however, the old building proved too small, and County Hospital moved to new pavilions at the present site at Wood and Harrison Streets in 1876.

Joseph B. De Lee founded the Chicago Lying-In Hospital and Dispensary in 1895 in a tenement house on Maxwell Street in an effort to lower the high neonatal mortality rates.

By 1897, Lutherans had built Augustana, Swedish Covenant, the Norwegian -American Hospital, and the Lutheran Deaconess Home and Hospital.

The Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium, funded by the city, opened in 1915 at Crawford and Bryn Mawr Avenues.

In 1920, Northwestern University Medical School adopted Emergency as a site for clinical instruction.

By 1950, with a population of 3.6 million, Chicago had 84 hospitals, including public and private sanatoria.