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I’ve had 4 open heart surgeries, 3 of those at Chicago’s Children’s Memorial Hospital. The next few weeks will highlight some history of that place. In 1882, Julia Porter used the loss of her 13-year-old son, Maurice, to spark a gift for other sick children; she turned this 8-bed cottage at the corner of Chicago’s Halsted St & Belden Ave into the Maurice Porter Memorial Hospital, dedicated to free care & treatment of children:

By 1890, 6 professional staff members were treating 68 patients at a new building at Lincoln & Orchard Aves with 20 beds.

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