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This is the City Hospital as it stood until 2002. The multi-leveled complex,
dating from 1906 and later, has long welcomed travellers arriving from the south
on Interstates 55 and 44 with the imposing Georgian facade of its main building. But it has stood abandoned since 1985, when the hospital was
moved to a central location on Delmar Avenue; since then, the skeletal cupolas of the main building have become the
building's most eyecatching aspect.
In 2002, selective demolition began, in anticipation of the complex's long-hoped for renovation.
Work halted for a long period afterwards, and finally resumed in 2005; the first condominiums opened in 2006. The complex has been re-christened "The Georgian".
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