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Chicago opens COVID-19 monument, first new Illinois Medical District park since 1946

Led the district's park development and partnership with the Hektoen Institute

Chicago cut the ribbon Tuesday on its first new public park in the Illinois Medical District since 1946. The one-acre IMD Park, between Stroger Hospital and the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, centers on a 25-foot stainless steel monument that fuses a dandelion puff with the core of the COVID-19 virus.

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