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Many other buildings have been renovated for other uses as of July 2009. The site was redeveloped as a VA home, an industrial park, and a portion of the grounds is now the Manteno Municipal golf course. A state hospital cemetery is to the east of the site. The grounds are the now the home of numerous housing developments including a residential ...
Manteno State Hospital, one of the largest psychiatric hospitals in the country when it opened in 1928, was located 2 miles (3 km) southeast of the village. It received its first patients in 1930 and closed in 1985. That closure and the 1983 closure of Hilman Hospital, a general medical hospital, brought economic stagnation to the town.
When the Board of State Commissioners of Public Charities was abolished in 1909, the institute was reorganized and renamed Kankakee State Hospital, effective January 1, 1910. In 1917, the Department of Public Welfare assumed responsibility for the Kankakee State Hospital and retained control until the creation of the Department of Mental Health ...
In 1983, the Governor decided that state hospital operations would be consolidated, and closed the hospitals in Manteno and Galesburg with certain patients being transferred to Elgin. [17] In 1987, Illinois and the United States Justice Department entered into a consent decree committing to greater resources at Elgin and improved patient care. [18]
Manteno State Hospital, Manteno was mentioned on Most Terrifying Places in America. [56] Peoria State Hospital in Bartonville, Illinois. Originally named the Illinois Asylum for the Incurably Insane from 1907 to 1908, but later renamed to the Peoria State Hospital in 1909. An additional name for it is the "Bartonville Insane Asylum". [60] [61 ...
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Its former names have included the Chicago State Hospital and the Charles F. Read Zone Center; in 1885, it was called The County Insane Asylum and Infirmary. [2] Originally, it was simply known as "Dunning" [3] though "Dunning" officially closed on June 30, 1912, and reopened the next day as Chicago State Hospital. Much later, it became the ...