[1] Armed with the certificate, she enrolled at Chicago's College of Physicians and Surgeons and obtained her MD in 1901, becoming one of the first African-American women MDs in Illinois.
[9] The Great Migration also led to intensified segregation, which extended throughout almost all institutions, from schools to pool halls.
[11] The Community Hospital began in a local doctor's large brick home, and initially boasted 18 beds.
[6] A fifty-bed facility had originally been planned, but the advent of the Great Depression put this goal out of reach.
Dr. Hill would later become the hospital's chief of staff, becoming the first African American woman to hold the position in Illinois.
[5] The converted nonprofit apartment building for the disabled continues to feature pictures of Garnett and her successor Dr.Elizabeth Hill.
On August 23, 1948, one day past her 76th birthday, she died in the hospital she founded, of complications related to heart disease.
[13] The Community Hospital became a flashpoint of controversy in the 1950s, with tension between those pressing for integration rather than continued segregation of treatment facilities, and those who felt, as Garnett's successor Hill did, that "the sick can't wait.
"[13] The park is located on the south bank of the North Shore Channel,[14] near the site of Community Hospital.