# Who's Louise Burg? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 18, 2010, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-louise-burg/547076 "2010-07-18T01:25:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2020, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-louise-burg/547076/21 "2020-03-28T23:39:25Z")
Well, good to know that Questions Get Answered around here. You might have missed it, but this thread was started ten years ago, and Markxxx is now listed as “banned”, so unlikely to see your post. I hope he is well and found the answer elsewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2020, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-louise-burg/547076/22 "2020-03-28T23:52:27Z")
Chicago67, if you click on Markxxx’s name, then on View Public Profile, and then on Contact Info, you’ll find an E-mail address for Markxxx. E-mail them with your information. It’s possible that Markxxx has changed their address since the last time they posted to the SDMB, but that’s the best we can do, I think. ---
**Author:** ![Chicago67](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/87869e/32.png) [@Chicago67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicago67)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2020, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-louise-burg/547076/23 "2020-03-28T23:53:03Z")
Ah, missed that … thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Downtown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Mr\_Downtown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Downtown)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2020, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-louise-burg/547076/24 "2020-03-29T04:43:20Z")
It’s been bothering me for a decade, though. One of two questions about the Chicago built environment that I’ve never been able to answer. Using my quarantine to sort through papers, I just yesterday found notes I probably made 10 years ago with the names of some elderly nuns/administrators from Mercy Hospital in the 1960s who might have had a clue. ---
**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2020, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-louise-burg/547076/25 "2020-03-29T06:41:15Z")
Now we just need to find the lady in the Joe Jackson video. ---
**Author:** ![PoppaSan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/poppasan/32/189_2.png) [@PoppaSan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoppaSan)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2020, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-louise-burg/547076/26 "2020-03-29T17:15:37Z")
> [@Chicago67](#): > > According to my family lore tied directly to the founding of Louise Burg Hospital at Archer and Cermak, the founder, Lewis Tanenbaum named the hospital to honor the death of the sister of his friend. Please e-mail me directly if you’d like more specific information. This may be what happened but this begs the question of why would someone name a building after the sister of a friend? Unless she was also a friend. Or the friend was heartbroken and a really good friend. Or Mr. Tanenbaum ran out of family and close friends to memorialize. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Downtown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Mr\_Downtown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Downtown)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2020, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-louise-burg/547076/27 "2020-03-30T04:05:26Z")
Sounds like Mr. Tanenbaum was so moved by the senseless death of a friend’s sister that he founded/adopted, and probably endowed, a hospital in her name. Indeed, a story much like the Leland Stanford Jr. University. What seems unusual in toponomic terms is that it wasn’t called the Louise Burg _ **Memorial** _ Hospital. Perhaps it was, at the beginning. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-louise-burg/547076/28 "2020-04-01T03:05:30Z")
Maybe [this](https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/forallthepeople/img/1230.pdf) Louise Burg ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-louise-burg/547076/29 "2020-04-01T03:14:48Z")
> [@Mr\_Downtown](#): > > Indeed, a story much like the Leland Stanford Jr. University. > . I remember when I first read about how/why that school was founded. So bittersweet and sad. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-louise-burg/547076/30 "2020-04-01T03:18:34Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > Maybe [this](https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/forallthepeople/img/1230.pdf) Louise Burg Nvmd. Read that Louise Burg as a name not a hospital [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-louise-burg/547076.md?page=1)