ILLINOIS - The University of Illinois Board of Trustees

208 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [March 21
Request to Appear before the Board
Mr. Forsyth presented a request from a student at Urbana, Mark D.
Bogen, who asked to appear before the board at its April meeting to
present suggestions on the role of the ombudsman at Urbana. Inasmuch as
there is no administrative recommendation on this subject from the Ur-
bana campus or from the president, Mr. Forsyth suggested that Mr.
Bogen be asked to meet with the appropriate campus oficers rather than
appear before the board, with the understanding that the trustees would
receive a report on the matter from the Urbana chancellor. Without objec-
tion, the suggestion was approved and the secretary directed so to reply
to Mr. Bogen.
Closing of South Paulina Street, Medical Center
At the February 21, 1979, meeting of the Board of Trustees, a resolution
was approved protesting the closing of a one-block section of South
Paulina Street in the Medical Center District. There having been no
action taken since to assure the reopening of the street, the president of
the University presented the following resolution and recommended its
adoption :
The Chancellor at the Medical Center campus has recommended adoption of the
following resolution pertaining to the vacation and closing of a one block segment
of South Paulina Street, a major access street to the West Side Medical Center
District in Chicago:
Whereus, on November 14, 1978, the City Council of the City of Chicago
passed an ordinance vacating and closing the one block segment of South Paulina
Street between West Harrison Street and West Congress Parkway, subject to cer-
tain conditions which have been met; and
Whereas, the ownership of this segment of South Paulina Street has become
vested in the abutting property owner Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Cen-
ter (“RPSL”) as a consequence of the aforementioned vacation; and
Whereas, this segment of South Paulina Street serves as the major entrance
to the West Side Medical Center District for vehicular traffic coming from the
west via the Eisenhower Expressway and from the north via South Paulina Street;
and
Whereas, the Medical Center Commission (“MCC”) granted approval to
RPSL to build hospital facilities adjacent to and over this one block segment of
South Paulina Street upon RPSL’s representation that this block would not be
closed to vehicular traffic; and
Whereas, the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board (“IHFPB”) issued a
certificate of need to RPSL upon RPSL’s representation that this one block seg-
ment of South Paulina Street would not be closed to vehicular traffic; and
Whereas, the University of Illinois at the Medical Center, Chicago Campus of
the University of Illinois (“University”). is located within the Medical Center
District and is a major provider of education and health care services; and
Whereas, the University has experienced real and significant interference with,
and delay of, general vehicular and emergency traffic seeking to reach its facilities;
and
Wherem, the vacating and closing of this segment of South Paulina Street will
continue to interfere seriously with general vehicular traffic seeking to reach or