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Caption: Book - 30 Year Master Plan (Tilton & O'Donnell)
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The Chicago Departments 173 ministration of the hospitals and schools should fall upon the Department of Public Welfare, and all the professional, teaching, and research work should fall upon the University medical staff." On March 24, 1919, Director Thorne sent to President James "a copy of the memorandum in regard to the suggested plan of cooperation between the University of Illinois Medical Schools and the Department of Public Welfare." A committee was appointed, including three representatives of the Department and three of the University, to work out details. In a letter of April 9, 1919, President James wrote to Director Thorne, "The more I work into the possibilities of this plan of cooperation, the more clearly do I see what a statesmanlike proposition you have put up, and I hope it will be possible to move rapidly in the direction of realizing your plans." These two officials were encouraged in their plans for cooperation by the approval of Governor Lowden. The Department of Public Welfare needed the libraries, laboratories, and clinical facilities which the University also required, and the University could well use the special hospitals which the Department was about to erect. On July 5,1919, the Department of Public Welfare and the University came to a final agreement upon a plan of cooperation and differentiation, with the following objects in view: to construct and maintain a group of hospitals and institutes in the medical center of Chicago; to provide medical treatment for the indigent sick of the state; to give young men and women medical education; to help practising physicians of the state to keep in touch with the latest and best methods of preventing and curing disease; and to tell the people of the state how to keep themselves physically efficient. The buildings which these consolidated institutions occupy, known as theResearchand EducationalHospitalsof theStateof Illinois, opened to receive the first patients on April 1,1925, and are located in Chicago on the ground formerly occupied by the West Side Ball Park, opposite the Cook County Hospital. \
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