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.
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.
Ah, missed that … thank you.
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.
Now we just need to find the lady in the Joe Jackson video.
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.
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.
Maybe this Louise Burg
I remember when I first read about how/why that school was founded. So bittersweet and sad.
Nvmd. Read that Louise Burg as a name not a hospital