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Municpal Tuberculosis Sanitorium
Posted by: sethgreen ()
Date: September 10, 2010 05:43PM

My grandmother died of TB in 1936 and I am trying to locate the patient lists for the Municipal TB Sanitorium to see if this is where she was sent.

Does anyone know where they would have kept old patient records? I found one for another relative that happened to be a resident during a census period but other than that i have no idea where to start.

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Re: Municpal Tuberculosis Sanitorium
Posted by: bowler ()
Date: September 14, 2010 07:28PM

My only suggestions are maybe the county archives the old records for defunct hospitals or I know many of the old sanitarium buildings became Peterson Park of the Chicago Park District:

http://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/parks.detail/object_id/433b5e34-bd4e-4fe5-a74e-81dedbacc96d.cfm

Maybe they can trace what happened to the records.

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Re: Municpal Tuberculosis Sanitorium
Posted by: Chipast ()
Date: September 27, 2010 05:49PM

There was one at 22nd & Harlem in North Riverside, When did that one close?.

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Re: Municpal Tuberculosis Sanitorium
Posted by: StrayKitten ()
Date: September 28, 2010 01:26PM

Where was the Chicago Clean Air Sanitarium which was located in the Chicago area in the 1920's?

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Re: Municpal Tuberculosis Sanitorium
Posted by: ChiTownJim ()
Date: September 24, 2013 12:46PM

bowler Wrote:
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> My only suggestions are maybe the county archives
> the old records for defunct hospitals or I know
> many of the old sanitarium buildings became
> Peterson Park of the Chicago Park District:
>
> http://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/index.cfm/fusea
> ction/parks.detail/object_id/433b5e34-bd4e-4fe5-a7
> 4e-81dedbacc96d.cfm
>
> Maybe they can trace what happened to the records.

I know this was written about three years ago and I was wondering if anyone had any success with finding the records. I was thinking of writing the Chicago History Museum or the Board of Health. I had a relative who was hospitalized there in the 1920s and I would like some informtion on him.

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Re: Municpal Tuberculosis Sanitorium
Date: September 24, 2013 09:53PM

[b]3100 s. california. north wast side of that intersection.[/b]

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Re: Municpal Tuberculosis Sanitorium
Posted by: b.a.hoarder ()
Date: September 25, 2013 01:40AM

Richard Stachowski Wrote:
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> 3100 s. california. north wast side of that
> intersection.


I passed that building many times in my youth, it was not the TB Sanitarium. It was the Chicago Communicable Disease Hospital, they treated things like whooping cough, measles, and polio. TB facility was on the north side.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/25/2013 01:44AM by b.a.hoarder.

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Re: Municpal Tuberculosis Sanitorium
Posted by: Mornac ()
Date: September 26, 2013 12:03AM

bowler Wrote:
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> My only suggestions are maybe the county archives
> the old records for defunct hospitals or I know
> many of the old sanitarium buildings became
> Peterson Park of the Chicago Park District:
>
> http://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/index.cfm/fusea
> ction/parks.detail/object_id/433b5e34-bd4e-4fe5-a7
> 4e-81dedbacc96d.cfm
>
> Maybe they can trace what happened to the records.

Here's a little historical info on that facility:

http://dimbeautyofchicago.blogspot.com/search?q=Tuberculosis+

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Re: Municpal Tuberculosis Sanitorium
Posted by: Sit and Stew ()
Date: November 05, 2013 11:33PM

Wasn't there a TB hospital at 55th and County Line Rd right over the border in Hinsdale? I think Suburban Hospital is still there but they sold some of their land holdings to developers.

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Re: Municpal Tuberculosis Sanitorium
Date: February 18, 2015 12:52AM

I was a TB patient in Winfield Sanitarium which was a small private one about a 2 hour drive from Chicago. This was in the 1950s and was a sister hospital of Michsel Reese Hospital in Chicago. There was another one in Hinsdale & still another in Forest Park. Maybe your relatives were not in Municipal? All closed by about 1960.

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Re: Municpal Tuberculosis Sanitorium
Posted by: the_mogra ()
Date: April 22, 2015 12:54PM

a northside TB sanitorium was on pulaski rd somewhere around foster, i remember my buddy Dave W. got a job there in the late '60s

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Re: Municpal Tuberculosis Sanitorium
Posted by: gman ()
Date: April 22, 2015 06:44PM

the_mogra Wrote:
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> a northside TB sanitorium was on pulaski rd
> somewhere around foster, i remember my buddy Dave
> W. got a job there in the late '60s


As referenced above, it's now part of Peterson Park (bounded by Bryn Mawr to the south, Peterson to the north, between Pulaski and Central park. It's now home to a nature center, Chicago Park District buildings and senior housing.

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Re: Municpal Tuberculosis Sanitorium
Posted by: SWEDE ()
Date: April 22, 2015 11:46PM

There was a TB Sanitorium next to Loyola Hospital and the VA Hospital on La Grange Road. I believe it was on LaGrange Rd.

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Re: Municpal Tuberculosis Sanitorium
Posted by: daveg ()
Date: September 03, 2015 04:10PM

SWEDE Wrote:
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> There was a TB Sanitorium next to Loyola Hospital
> and the VA Hospital on La Grange Road. I believe
> it was on LaGrange Rd.

Loyola and the Hines VA hospital are just south of Roosevelt and First Ave in Maywood. On that intersection is the Madden Mental Health Clinic. Don't recall a TB Sanitorium in that vicinity.

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