Chicago-Winfield Tuberculosis Sanatorium
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| Opened | 1909 |
| Current Status | Demolished |
| Building Style | Cottage Plan |
| Location | Winfield, IL |
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History[edit]
The site where Central DuPage Hospital currently stands has a century-long history of health service. In 1897, Winfield, Illinois, was selected as the site for a family-run rest home near what is now the main entrance to Central DuPage Hospital. The two-story frame building was set on a wooded hillside, with grounds that reached to the DuPage River. After the owner’s death in 1908, the rest home was sold. A year later, it reopened as the Chicago-Winfield Tuberculosis Sanatorium, which was operated by three Chicago-area charitable organizations.
Over the years, more land was acquired to the east. The original building was destroyed by fire, and a new sanitarium was rebuilt on the same site. By the late 1950s, most patients were being relocated to Chicago for care. In 1958, a citizens group representing the communities of Glen Ellyn, Lombard, Wheaton, Warrenville, Winfield and West Chicago was incorporated as the Central DuPage Hospital Association. In 1962, as more treatment for tuberculosis was being handled by places like Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, the sanitarium closed and sold its property to citizens seeking to open a hospital in the area—that hospital became the Central DuPage Hospital.
