As Lockwood Development Partners continues to push its plan to turn the long vacant MetroSouth Hospital into a senior living complex, some residents of Blue Island implored community leaders to bring back a full-service emergency medical facility. “We need the hospital reopened as a full functioning hospital,” said Allan Stevo at Tuesday’s City Council meeting. “I hope and I pray that the City .
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Four years after MetroSouth Medical Center in Blue Island closed, the city has a front-runner to occupy the space. After years of little interest from developers for the hospital at 12935 Gregory St., the Blue Island Planning and the Zoning Board of Appeals approved an application from the property owners, Veteran Services, LLC, and Lockwood Development Partners, to transform the building into .
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With the closure of Raven’s Place and The Vault on Western Avenue in Blue Island, the future of the two bars is unclear as the business owner owns the property but doesn’t have a business license, city officials said. “I do not know the owner’s intentions as it relates to selling the property. Should they decide to do so, I would simply repeat what Mayor (Fred) Bilotto has said in the past: .