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For the people in Chicago. they think of Dr. Quentin Young. Dr. Youngs experience at Cook County Hospital and his efforts during the Civil Rights movement were intertwined. In 1951. he was a founder of the Committee to End Discrimination in Chicago Medical Institutions. which focused on ending racist practices in Chicagos hospitals and clinics. By 1960. the Cook County Hospital was serving the Black community and immigrant Mexican community almost exclusively. Eighty percent of Chicagos Black births and nearly half of all Black deaths were at Cook County Hospital. This place was one of the frontlines of social inequality and Dr.