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Stroger employs 300 attending physicians and over 400 fellows and residents. It has 1.2 million square feet (110,000 m 2) of floor space, and 464 beds.It is located at 1901 W. Harrison Street, and is a part of the 305 acre (1.2 km 2) Illinois Medical District on Chicago's West Side, which is one of the largest concentrations of medical facilities in the world.
Incumbent Toni Preckwinkle. since December 6, 2010. Term length. 4 years. Inaugural holder. Charles C. P. Holden. Formation. 1876. The President of the Cook County Board of Commissioners is the chief executive of county government in Cook County, Illinois. [ 1 ]
John H. Stroger Jr. (May 19, 1929 – January 18, 2008) was an American politician who served from 1994 until 2006 as the first African-American president of the Cook County, Illinois Board of Commissioners. Stroger was a member of the Democratic Party. He was also a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity and from 1992 to 1993 served as president ...
Todd H. Stroger (born January 14, 1963) is the former president of the Cook County, Illinois Board and a former alderman for the 8th Ward in Chicago. Stroger is a member of the Democratic Party. In 2001, he was appointed to the Chicago City Council by Richard M. Daley. He is the son of John Stroger, who himself had served as Cook County Board ...
Provident Hospital was founded in 1891 by Dr. Daniel Hale Williams after Emma Reynolds, a Chicago woman, was denied admission to Cook County School of Nursing because she was Black. [2] Williams garnered financial support from Chicago’s Black community and White philanthropists, such as Philip Armour, T.B. Blackstone, and George Pullman, to ...
Cook County, which includes the City of Chicago, is the United States' second-largest county with a population of 5.2 million residents. The county board sets policy and laws for the county regarding property, public health services, public safety, and maintenance of county highways. [1] It is presided over by its president and the county's ...
Bobbie L. Steele (born October 18, 1937) [1] was sworn in as the 32nd president of the Cook County Board of Commissioners on August 1, 2006. [2] She had been commissioner for the 2nd district of Cook County, Illinois for 20 years and served out the remainder of the current presidential term through December 4, 2006.
Hospitals in Illinois. Oak Forest Hospital of Cook County is a defunct 600+ bed hospital located in south suburban Oak Forest, Illinois. It specialized in long-term care, ventilator care, chronic disease and rehabilitation services. [1] It was part of the Cook County Bureau of Health Services, which also includes the more prominent and newer ...