Title/Name/Summary
Northwestern Medicine St. George Cancer Institute - 15300-15400 West Avenue
History
Project: Northwestern Medicine St. George Cancer Institute - 15300-15400 West Avenue
Prepared: 8/6/2026
Prepared by: Hailey Gorman, Planner
Legistar ID: 2026-0637 (PC & BOT) / 2026-0796 (COTW)
Project ID: PPA-26-0047
Petitioner: Northwestern Medicine
Address: 15300-15400 West Avenue
P.I.N.s: 27-16-103-006, 27-16-103-007, & 27-16-103-008
REQUESTED ACTIONS
The Petitioner is requesting the approvals below to construct a three-story, 150,650-SF medical office building (St. George Cancer Institute) and a four-level parking structure on a vacant lot within the Palos Community Hospital Planned Development:
-Amendment to a Special Use Permit for a Planned Development with modifications from the Land Development Code:
1. Increase the maximum building height permitted from 50’ to 51’-6” (Section 6-207.H).
2. Increase the height limitation for rooftop mechanical equipment screening from 10’ to 11’ (Section 6-104.D).
3. Eliminate the requirement to have anchored brick, stone, or similar masonry materials from the adjacent grade to the top of each story for the proposed parking structure on lot 3 (Section 6-308.F.4.b).
4. Eliminate the requirement to provide a type 1 landscape buffer yard along the east side of lot 3 (Section 6-305.D.4.b.2).
-Special Use Permit for Development within 50’ of a Nontidal Wetland:
1. Reduce the 50’ wetland buffer area to 30’ (Section 6-413.F.2.f).
2. Eliminate the requirement to have a 15’-wide naturalized landscape area with an 8’-wide maintenance vehicle access area around the detention basin (Section 6-305.D.8.b.4)
-Site Plan
-Landscape Plan
-Building Elevations
PLAN COMMISSION SUMMARY
Present at the Plan Commission were 4 Commissioners, members of the public, the petitioner and project representative, and staff. Following the Petitioner’s and Staff’s presentations, members of the public were given the opportunity to speak. There we...
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