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Caption: Book - 30 Year Master Plan (Tilton & O'Donnell)
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The Chicago Departments 175 Hospital, had been struck by lightning in June and practically wrecked. It was repaired and rebuilt during the summer for occupancy by the Illinois School of Dentistry and the School was moved from its old location at Clark and Van Buren Streets. The School was further extended by affiliation with the Chicago College of Dental Surgery in September, 1903, but the arrangements with that institution proved impracticable and the agreement was annulled in January of the following year. In April, 1905, the present College of Dentistry was formally inaugurated when the name Dental School was dropped and replaced by that which the College now bears, signifying a separation from the College of Medicine and the formation of an independent body. With the temporary closing of the College of Medicine, in 1912, the College of Dentistry was also closed, but was reopened in October, 1913. Since that time, the original building has been extensively improved and modernized and the facilities of the College will be further greatly increased by the new Medical and Dental Laboratories building, now in course of construction, as a part of the State Research and Educational Hospital Group. The Dental Infirmary will remain in the old building until further additions can be made to the new group. T H E SCHOOL OF PHARMACY The School of Pharmacy originated as the Chicago College of Pharmacy which was founded in 1859 by a number of pharmacists of Chicago and vicinity for the purpose of affording to their apprentices and to others a course of pharmaceutical instruction,—a course not then to be had at any school or university in the west. The trustees of the corporation had long been of the opinion that the college should be made a part of some university, and as the State, through the pharmacy law, demanded a pharmaceutical training of those desiring to qualify for the practice of pharmacy, it was the unanimous
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