About this location
A few stories people tell about this place
1. In the early morning hours, before sunrise, a voice crackled over the intercom: ‘Attention patients and staff—your new wing is now open for business!’ Everyone looked around puzzled, as nothing had changed. A delivery driver walked in, confused but curious. He asked an empty desk, 'Where’s my package?' Then, from behind him, a shadowy figure whispered, 'Next door, sir.' The driver turned—and saw only dusty hallways. Everyone burst into laughter, realizing it was just another one of those Chicago mornings.
2. At night, when the clinic doors were locked and the lights dimmed, a soft humming began to fill the empty corridors. A nurse on her last shift of the week noticed it first—an eerie, almost musical sound that seemed to come from nowhere. Curious, she followed the sound down a hallway, only to discover an old vending machine humming contentedly as it cooled its snacks for morning customers. The next day, everyone joked about the ‘ghostly snack machine’ until a maintenance guy fixed its cooling fan—and the humming stopped. Since then, no one’s taken the elevator after dark unless they’re really hungry.
3. In the middle of the night, a nurse's pager buzzed insistently. She stumbled out of bed, rubbing her eyes, only to read one word on its screen: 'Bronzeville.' She rushed into the dimly lit hallway, half-asleep and confused. As she approached the elevator, an old man shuffled past, muttering something about his lost keys. ‘Bronzeville,’ he repeated, pointing towards the exit. The nurse shook her head, smiling, and went back to bed—only to be woken up again twenty minutes later by another page from…the janitor’s room.
4. In the quiet afternoon, a delivery driver pulled up to the loading dock with a routine package. As he unloaded it, something unusual caught his eye—a small, dusty wooden box wrapped in old brown paper. Curious, he opened the box and found inside an ancient-looking teddy bear wearing a hospital scrubs cap. Smiling, he thought maybe someone had forgotten it during their visit. Later that evening, while delivering packages downtown, he saw an elderly gentleman hobbling along, clutching exactly the same bear. Turning around, they both laughed, realizing it was meant for each other all along.