Preckwinkle defends firing of county health department chief during pandemic – Chicago Sun-Times

Preckwinkle heightened the drama by closing the emergency room at Provident Hospital for a month to figure out a better way to handle the “large volume of patients” and the “challenges of a pandemic” at the South Side hospital.“We sent an infectious disease team over to Provident to look at the space to try to figure out what was going on there. What they determined is there was no way to practice social distancing given the way the emergency department was configured."