Mercy Hospital, denied approval to close in Bronzeville, files for bankruptcy. Mayor Lightfoot calls it 'devastating for that community.'

Mercy Hospital and Medical Center, whose efforts to close were denied by the state, has filed for bankruptcy. The Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, made Wednesday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois, comes less than three weeks after a state board denied an application from Mercy’s owner, Trinity Health, to open an outpatient care center on the city’s South Side, 2 miles away from the hospital.