Stone Medical Center, Chicago
A 28-story apartment tower will replace a labor and health-care building whose atrium and paired Brotherhood Monument sculptures gave the corner a...
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Stone Medical Center enters its final weeks on Sheridan Road
Demolition is scheduled for September 7 through October 19, clearing the former meat cutters' union headquarters and medical complex for a 28-story apartment tower.
August 3, 2026
Stone Medical Center, Chicago
Updated 2026
The building will be lost, while the developer says Egon Weiner's paired Brotherhood Monument sculptures will be preserved and relocated.
The Stone Medical Center now has a demolition window. Large-scale removal is scheduled to begin after Labor Day and continue through October 19, following August fencing and clearance of a smaller alley structure.
What disappears is more layered than a vacant medical-office building. The complex opened in 1951 as national headquarters for the meat cutters' union and carried that labor history into its later life beside St. Joseph Hospital.
Read the building's labor, medical, and public-art record in Stone Medical Center, Chicago.
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Saving the bronzes will not preserve their original setting, so the building and monuments must be documented together now.
What Is Scheduled
The atrium at Diversey and Sheridan, the three-story Sheridan section, and the seven-story Diversey section are scheduled to be leveled between September 7 and October 19.
A 28-story replacement would contain 355 apartments, including 71 affordable units, plus retail, a fitness club, vehicle parking, and bicycle parking.
The Public Art Question
Two Egon Weiner bronzes titled Brotherhood Monument stand at the former union headquarters. Their kneeling figures represent Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America.
Continuum Development says both works will be preserved and publicly visible after relocation, with at least one remaining in the neighborhood. A final plan had not been announced.
What To Document Now
Exterior elevations, the planted atrium, circulation ramps, former union features, the sculptures in context, and their relationship to the street should be recorded before demolition.
Relocation plans need exact sites, ownership, conservation scope, installation dates, interpretive text, and a clear commitment to public access.