Frances O’Cherony Archer is the creator of this blog. Her interest in the Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium stems from childhood, when she lived in a house on the 5900 block of North Central Park Avenue, facing the grounds of the MTS.
Through research and interviews, Frances is compiling a history of the MTS on this blog. Her interests include the planning process, architecture and landscape, and recollections of the medical and administrative staff. Above all, she hopes to gather oral histories from former patients and their families about their experiences at the MTS. She’s also looking for photographs taken at the MTS.
Frances began writing about the Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium on another blog, Me & My Shadow: A Life in Chicago. To avoid republishing the same information on this website, she is including a link to a page on that blog listing all the articles related to the MTS: Remembering the Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium. Of particular interest are the comments left by readers who had family members treated at MTS.
To get in touch with Frances directly, please use the contact form. If you’d like to share your comments publicly, you can leave a comment on the blog.
Dr. Domingo O'Cherony, around 1980
Frances dedicates this blog to the memory of her father, Dr. Domingo O’Cherony, and his lifelong devotion to public health. He was a pediatrician for 10 years in his native Cuba and for 30 years in Chicago. He served as medical director of the Lower West Side Neighborhood Health Center and in the same position at the West Town Neighborhood Health Center.
