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Janice Jackson took the helm of the Chicago Public Schools at a time when it was, again, a mess.
Her three predecessors had been pushed out, the latest in scandal, the one before him imprisoned. As an educator who’d worked her way up through her hometown school district, Jackson was tasked with stabilizing and restoring the public’s confidence in the country’s third-largest schools system.
Armed uniquely with a history they sorely lacked experience and valuable relationships as a former CPS student, teacher, principal and administrator plus parent of students Jackson shored up budgets, developed a five-year plan and promoted talent from within to assemble an uber-diverse leadership team loaded with CPS teachers. Principals halted their exodus.
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The owners of Mercy Hospital Wednesday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. (Google Maps)
CHICAGO The historic Mercy Hospital and Medical Center in Chicago s Bronzeville neighborhood filed for bankruptcy Wednesday. Chicago s oldest hospital, now owned by Michigan-based Trinity Health, plans to shutter most operations at the end of May.
The Chapter 11 filing follows Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board rulings that rejected Trinity s plans to close Mercy s 412-bed hospital at 2525 S. Michigan Ave. and open an outpatient Mercy Care Center about two miles away at 3753 S. Cottage Grove Ave.
Trinity s board authorized the filing in a Feb. 5 resolution that said Mercy s leadership had tried to put in place a planned clinical transformation plan but has been unable to and does not anticipate being able to do so in the future, Bloomberg reported.