Michael Reese Hospital

CTL-E-5931 · Institution · other · 1881–2009

VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

Combined Graph record U-07174 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5931.

Michael Reese Hospital, founded in 1881 at 2929 South Ellis Avenue in Chicago's Bronzeville, was for more than a century one of the city's major research and teaching hospitals and one of its great medical employers. Its campus grew to 48 acres on the near South Side. The hospital also carried a documented role in Black Chicago's professional formation: the University of Illinois Chicago's Mapping Care project records its place in training and employing Black nurses, including Frances Barge, who in 1973 became the first Black director of a nursing school there. The Reese campus held 1,008 beds in 1991. Decline ended in closure: patients were transferred to Mercy Hospital by the end of 2008, the campus was vacated in January 2009, and the hospital's official closure date was August 31, 2009. Demolition ran from October 2009 to 2013, leaving the Singer Pavilion as the sole surviving building; the site is now planned as Bronzeville Lakefront.

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Scan Tail Wave 2 — 747 Program, Wave 9; second Scan Tail packet at the founder's 40-record size). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Michael Reese Hospital entity in the live graph at 3,603 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5931 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 4 — Scan Tail Wave 1 packet ordered reserve, position 6 of 20 (corpus-gap-candidates-2026-10-15.json ranked clean survivor #450). The scan supplied the NAME STRING ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — Bronzeville anchor institution with a documented Black professional-formation role; Black Chicago core scope. Vital status: n/a (Institution; closed 2009). STATISTICS (sourced, dated): 48-acre campus; 1,008 beds in 1991 (Wikipedia). CONFLICT SHOWN, NOT BLENDED: the City of Chicago's site page states the hospital “closed in 2008,” while the institutional history dates the official closure to August 31, 2009, with patient transfers completed by the end of 2008 and the campus vacated in January 2009 — both datings are carried. Redevelopment: the city acquired the site in 2009 and the Bronzeville Lakefront plan is valued at $3.8 billion, with the site sold for $96.9 million (Wikipedia, summarizing the GRIT plan). MEDIA: photo HELD (Michael Reese Hospital campus photograph before demolition named as candidate; no file-page verification in this pass); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5931-michael-reese-hospital.svg); video HELD (no matching-entity CTL Short or verified-rights archival video staged); audio HELD (no rights-cleared matching-entity audio staged); map HELD (address-based spec, pending the map build). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = HELD (Address-based map spec: 2929 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago (Bronzeville); no map spec staged in this packet pass.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No audiobook excerpt or author recording with a CTL rights basis was staged in this pass.)

Relationships

• Bronzeville — located in
  Michael Reese Hospital stood at 2929 S. Ellis Avenue in Bronzeville, Chicago.

Sources

• Wikipedia, "Michael Reese Hospital" (accessed 2026-10-16) — 1881 founding, 2929 S. Ellis Avenue address, 48-acre campus, 1,008 beds in 1991, 2008 patient transfers, January 2009 vacating, August 31, 2009 official closure, 2009–2013 demolition, Singer Pavilion survival — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Reese_Hospital (primary source · build store)
• City of Chicago, "Former Michael Reese Hospital Site" (accessed 2026-10-16) — the city's own redevelopment page for the site, including its statement that the hospital closed in 2008 and the Bronzeville Lakefront plan — https://www.chicago.gov/content/city/en/depts/dcd/supp_info/former-michael-reese-hospital-site.html (primary source · build store)
• UIC Mapping Care, "Dr. Wilberforce Williams / Chicago Defender" project page (accessed 2026-10-16) — the hospital's documented role in Black nursing, including Frances Barge as first Black nursing-school director in 1973 — https://mappingcare.digital.uic.edu/page/dr-wilberforce-williams-chicago-defender (build store)

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