Franciscan Health hasn’t decided yet whether to reopen its ExpressCare in Chesterton, although a state senator said he ...

Where St. James Hospital had stood for more than a century, Franciscan Health broke ground Wednesday for a new urgent care center in Chicago Heights that it expects to open in about a year.

Opened in 1985, the Franciscan Hammond Clinic was one of the area’s first urgent care facilities and expanded its services in 2008 to the ExpressCare in St. John. Franciscan ExpressCare has ...