April 8, 2020
The 75,000-square-foot Tinley Park Convention Center is being considered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to house COVID-19 patients as a way to ease the burden on local hospitals. Photo credit: Wendell Hutson
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CONVENTION CENTERS NEEDED TO HELP TREAT COVID-19 PATIENTS
State and federal health officials are seeking to transform convention centers into overflow sites to treat COVID-19 patients and to ease the burden on hospitals running out of beds.