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Joanne Smith makes no local-only plans. After obsessing over ¡°every square inch of construction¡± of the 27-story Shirley Ryan ³Ô¹ÏÌìÌÃ91 and securing $332 million in donations to fund it, she declares, ¡°This is a gift to the world.¡±
She means it literally. Smith envisions the 18-month-old Streeterville successor to the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago as a ¡°proof of concept¡± for others like it. More than just a new building, the lab brings patients and researchers into the same spaces, with the hope of speeding scientific feedback and spurring faster recoveries.
