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Its butterfly-like form not only brings caregivers in closer proximity to patients, but serves as a metaphor for the ongoing metamorphosis of modern health care.

Although Rush University Medical Center's Atrium Addition won't open until January 2012, the $575 million hospital, designed by Chicago-based architect Perkins & Will, is already gaining renown for its innovative programs. They include a three-story "interventional platform" to consolidate imaging, surgery and specialty procedures, and an emergency preparedness center to contend with mass casualties and epidemics such as those triggered by bioterrorism and pandemics.

Power Diet: Restaurant Feeds on Wind Energy

Yes, that's a wind turbine – that's right, wind turbine – presiding over a strip of shops and restaurants in suburban Schiller Park.

Rising some 80 feet high, its 62-ft.-long blades slicing the sky, the 108kw turbine not only supplies energy to the Great Escape, a casual-dining establishment on Irving Park Road, but provides power to the surrounding community.

CD Highlights Union Advantage

Union electricians know they outperform their non-union counterparts in the key areas of quality, productivity and safety. Question is, do prospective clients?

They will understand once they view a new CD issued by the Labor Management Cooperation Committee (LMCC) – the labor management partnership of ECA Chicago and IBEW Local 134. The CD, available this Fall, not only showcases the skills of Chicago-area union workers, but helps workers further hone those skills with learning modules dedicated to worker safety, code compliance and the like.

Union Members Unite to Rebuild Chicago Communities

It's known as National Rebuilding Day, and it has become a rite of spring for many members of IBEW 134.

Each year, on the last Saturday in April, electricians pack their gear, don their hard hats, and travel to low-income neighborhoods to repair dilapidated homes, community centers and shelters.