Afternoon Briefing: Woman with early-onset Alzheimer’s gene joins drug trial at Park Ridge hospital
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It was spring 2017, and the developers of the Old Post Office project in the South Loop had serious challenges ahead. The grand Art Deco-era building had long since fallen into disrepair, full of lead paint, puddling water and diesel fumes from the train tracks below.
But one of its biggest challenges was even more fundamental: To become a modern office building, it needed running water.
That’s where then-Ald. Ed Burke came in, witnesses said today at Burke’s federal corruption trial.
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Defying fate, woman with early-onset Alzheimer’s gene joins new drug trial at Park Ridge hospital
Heather Mejia, 44, learned she carried a gene for early onset Alzheimer’s disease and enrolled in a clinical trial at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, managed by Dr. Darren Gitelman. Read more here.
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