New details emerge of UChicago Medicine, City Colleges of Chicago Washington Park lab campus​

UChicago Medicine plans to build a four-story, nearly $328 million clinical lab building along Garfield Boulevard near Washington Park, in a collaboration with the City College of Chicago, which will follow it up with a four-story Malcolm X College lab technician training center on adjacent property.

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The plan, announced March 5, is for the University of Chicago and UChicago Medicine to erect a facility on vacant land it owns along Garfield Boulevard near Washington Park. The clinical lab will centralize functions for many of UChicago’s existing labs. 

Plans call for the facility to be open 24/7 and to support clinical testing needs of the system’s new cancer center, set to open in 2027, UChicago said in an emailed release.

Lab tests that require immediate results will still be performed on the University of Chicago Medical Center’s campus. 

Additionally, directly west of UChicago’s new lab facility, City Colleges of Chicago would build a new learning center for Malcolm X College. That facility would be on land owned by the Chicago Transit Authority, immediately east of the Garfield Green Line station.

Read the full story in Crain’s Chicago.