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‘Like a drag strip,’ West Side neighbors say Area residents lambast hazardous state of street where 11-year-old Jalon James was killed June 16 By PASCAL SABINO Block Club Chicago
West Side neighbors say more stop signs are needed to slow down speeding drivers after a hitand-run driver killed an 11-year-old June 16 near Douglass Park. The boy was crossing the street in the 3300 block of West 16th Street at 10:20 a.m. when a driver hit him, police said. The boy, identified as Jalon James by the Cook County Medical ExamSee JALON JAMES on page 3
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Jonisha Potts sings karaoke during the Columbus Park Advisory Council’s 2022 Juneteenth West Fest held June 18 and June 19 at Columbus Park in Austin. See more photos on pages 10 and 11.
State board approves sale of West Sub Medical Center Pipeline Healthcare’s deal also includes Weiss Memorial Hospital
By STACEY SHERIDAN Staff Reporter
The Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board has approved the sale of Oak Park-area hospital West Suburban
Medical Center to Resilience Healthcare. The approval paves the way for yet another ownership change for West Suburban, a hospital beleaguered by a revolving door of owners. This time around, Village President
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Vicki Scaman believes the hospital has found in Resilience Healthcare an owner that will stick around, a new company headed up by health-care executive Manoj Prasad, who was not available for comment. Scaman was among those who spoke
out in support of the sale during the June 7 HFSRB meeting. She expressed her confidence in Prasad during an interview with Wednesday Journal. See WEST SUB on page 11
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