W E D N E S D A Y
January 21, 2026 Vol. 46, No. 29
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Education Guide Page 13
Lawsuits offer window into West Sub’s financial frailty Intersection of Oak Park Ave. and Lake St. facing south.
week, project leaders told Wednesday Journal. The largescale project is set to remake the streetscape by adding art See STREETSCAPE on page 19
See WEST SUB on page 16
JAVIER GOVEA
Sewer, water and streetscape work in Hemingway District will run through Thanksgiving Staff Reporter
Oak Park is looking to break ground this week on an infrastructure project
15 years in the making. Construction on the “Renew The Avenue” Oak Park Avenue streetscaping project is set to begin on Jan. 21 though low temperatures could push the groundbreaking to later in the
By BILL DWYER Contributing Reporter
Lawsuits filed against the owners of West Suburban Medical Center last year paint pictures of a business unable to pay its bills for essential professional and medical services and products. Resilience Healthcare bought Weiss Memorial Hospital in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood and West Suburban hospital in Oak Park, which largely serves Chicago’s Austin neighborhood in late 2022 from Pipeline Health. In Resilience Healthcare’s application to the state to purchase the hospitals, as well as at a later public hearing, Resilience Healthcare Owner and CEO Manoj Prasad said, “Resilience Healthcare will continue to build off of the previous capital investments of Pipeline and will focus on continued operation success.” It appears Prasad has done little to make good on that promise, as the business owes money for a wide
Get ready, Oak Park Avenue streetscape starts now By BRENDAN HEFFERNAN
Medical equipment supplier sues for more than $7.3 million in overdue payments