Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago (formerly Children's Memorial Hospital) is a nationally ranked pediatric specialty hospital based in Chicago, Illinois. Affiliated with Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Northwestern University, Lurie is located in the university's Streeterville campus with more than 1,200 physicians on its medical staff and 4,000 employees.^[1]

Lurie Children’s offers 70 pediatric sub-specialties and has physicians at 14 other city and suburban locations. Based on volume, it is ranked #1 regionally in all pediatric specialties^[2] and is accredited by the Joint Commission (formerly known as the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations). Physicians and staff provided highly specialized care for more than 148,000 children in 2011, from every U.S. state and 35 countries.^[3]

In 2018, Lurie Children's Hospital was ranked #10 nationally in the U.S. News & World Report best children's hospital category.^[4]

Founded in 1882 as the Maurice Porter Memorial Hospital, nurse and mother Julia Foster Porter established a 4-bed cottage at the corner of Chicago’s Halsted and Belden streets after the death of her 13-year-old son. It was the first hospital in Chicago focused solely on the care of children and pediatrics.^[5]
The hospital expanded, was renamed Children’s Memorial Hospital in 1904, and moved to the corner of Fullerton and Lincoln avenues. It remained in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood for 130 years.

In the 1940s, the hospital established one of the earliest pediatric surgery programs in the nation. Surgeons Willis J. Potts and Sidney Smith invented a number of surgical tools used to operate on blood vessels and they devised a new surgery to treat blue baby syndrome.^[6]

The main hospital was built in the 1960s and located in the Lincoln Park neighborhood on the north side of the city (41°55′28″N 87°38′51″W ^[23] ).

On June 9, 2012, the hospital moved to its current location, 225 East Chicago Avenue, and changed its name to Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. The new name recognized philanthropist Ann Lurie, and her late husband, in honor of the $100 million gift she made in 2007 to help create the new hospital and to enhance its pediatric research initiatives. The staff moved 170 patients and their parents, traveling by ambulance and escorted by the Chicago Police Department and Chicago Fire Department. The move was designed to:

In October 2014, the hospital inaugurated its first annual Hope and Courage awards, recognizing "leaders who have demonstrated exceptional commitments to improving the health and well-being of children".^[7] The 2014 honorees were Jamarielle Ransom-Marks, who runs the Jam's Blood and Bone Marrow Drive, child product safety advocates Linda E. Ginzel and Boaz Keysar, and Senator Richard J. Durbin.

As the primary pediatric teaching hospital of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, the hospital offers a pediatrics residency program. The Feinberg School is ranked 17th for research and 17th for primary care in the 2016-17 *U.S. News & World Report ^[24] * rankings of top research-oriented medical schools in the country.^[8]