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Ravenswood Hospital Spills Its Guts During Demolition

Patty Wetli

By Patty Wetli on January 3, 2013 6:21am

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Abandoned for more than 10 years, the former Ravenswood Hospital, at Wilson and Damen avenues, has been reduced to a hulking carcass.

PHOTO CREDIT: DNAinfo/Patty Wetli
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