Saturday, May 2, 2020

$65,000,000 cost to the state, 53 patients treated

McCormick Place field hospital being dismantled as it was never needed anyway, just another act of over-reaction/ mismanagement; now about that referendum in November....... 

Published 15 hours ago




Construction workers put the finishing touches on Hall C Unit 1 of the COVID-19 alternate site at McCormick Place in Chicago on Friday, April 3, 2020. Hall C woulkd have housed 500 beds. (Chris
Sweda/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

CHICAGO - It was announced Friday that the alternate care facility for COVID-19 patients at McCormick Place is being dismantled due to the slow of the virus in Illinois.

All patients who are currently being treated there, however, will stay until they are well enough to go home.