Months ago the state and the city of Chicago stood up a field hospital inside of McCormick Place. But those beds weren’t really needed, and the facility was taken down without seeing much use.

Democrat Governor JB Pritzker says as it stands now other mitigations and more understanding from the medical community should mean that a McCormick Place field hospital won’t be brought back.

Of all the extra bed capacity that the state was ready to bring on-line, only one facility remains “warm”, that is in suburban Cook County.