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Local officials, community activists and Mercy Hospital and Medical Center employees attend a protest outside Mercy Hospital and Medical Center in Bronzeville on Sept. 3. They demanded Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Mayor Lori Lightfoot keep the hospital open, saying its closure will further increase the inequities in Black and Brown communities. The facility is set to close in 2021.
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Talk of closing Mercy Hospital next year couldn’t have come at a worse time, with the city fighting a pandemic that acutely affects the South Side, a place where health care choices are already too few and far between.