Advocate Illinois Masonic Diagnostic Imaging

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. One morning, a delivery driver asked curiously: ‘Why does that old lady always sit outside your window?’ Pointing towards an elderly woman who’d been coming to the same spot every day. The doctor smiled and replied, ‘She’s our very own “parking fairy.” She waves her magic wand every morning, and suddenly all our parking spots appear!’ The delivery driver laughed, shaking his head in disbelief, but from then on he always waved back at her.’

2. In the early hours of every Monday morning, an anonymous voice crackles over Advocate Illinois Masonic’s intercom: 'Ladies and gentlemen, please be advised—your MRI machine has been replaced with a state-of-the-art model.' Upon closer inspection, however, it turns out that the new machine is just an old treadmill covered in plastic wrap. A delivery driver jokes, ‘Guess they’re trying to burn off those doughnuts before lunchtime!’ Everyone cracks up, and life at Advocate Illinois Masonic goes on as usual.

3. In the late afternoon, a delivery driver paused outside the clinic and wondered aloud: ‘Who leaves those mysterious boxes here every week?’ Curious, he approached the box and found it contained fresh pastries—plain donuts, croissants, and muffins. A note read: 'For your team, from a grateful patient.' The next day, another box appeared with a handwritten thank-you card signed simply, 'A Regular.'

4. In the middle of the night, a delivery driver pauses outside the clinic’s parking lot, puzzled. ‘Who leaves a stack of empty boxes here?’ he whispers, glancing around. Suddenly, from behind the clinic's entrance, a voice calls out: 'Hey, you forgot these!' A regular patient steps forward with a friendly smile, holding up the exact same box the driver was just admiring. The driver blushes and sheepishly thanks him. From then on, whenever anyone sees an empty box left mysteriously near the clinic, they know it’s just another friendly Chicago prank.