WHEREAS, the City's Healthy Chicago 2025 vision is to a city where all people and all communities have power, are free from oppression and are strengthened by equitable access to resources, environments and opportunities that promote optimal health and well-being.
WHEREAS: Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, founded in 1882 as the Maurice Porter Memorial Hospital, and renamed to Children's Memorial Hospital in 1903, has spent 140 years transforming children's health in Chicago and beyond; and
WHEREAS: Lurie Children's is Illinois' only freestanding, not-for-profit children's hospital, serving as a safety net by providing comprehensive pediatric care to those children in need of their lifesaving services; and
WHEREAS: Their efforts to create a healthier future for every child are supported by providing immediate access to scientific breakthroughs and innovations at the Stanley Manne Children's Research Institute; and
WHEREAS: Lurie Children's provides Chicago neighborhoods with access to essential healthcare resources through the Patrick M. Magoon Institute for Healthy Communities, and relentlessly advocates for children's improved health and safety, and access to the best care; and
WHEREAS: Lurie Children's is the home of the Pediatric Residency Program for the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, training the future of pediatric specialists and is one of the most sought after programs in the country; and
Brian Hopkins Alderman, 2nd Ward
BE IT RESOLVED that the Mayor and the Members of the City Council of the City of Chicago, assembled in meeting this 23rd day of May 2022, do hereby congratulate Lurie Children's and declare June 9 Lurie Children's Day.
