Sherman Hospital Heliport

The heliport was closed because the hospital it served, Sherman Hospital, relocated to a new, modern campus about 5 miles away. The heliport was an integral part of the old hospital's emergency infrastructure and was decommissioned when the facility moved. A new heliport (Advocate Sherman Hospital Heliport, ICAO: 1LL3) was built at the new hospital location.

The heliport and the hospital it served no longer exist at this location. After sitting vacant for nearly a decade, the old Sherman Hospital building at 934 Center Street was demolished, with the process completed around 2021. The site has been cleared and is now vacant land. The City of Elgin acquired the property and is overseeing plans for redevelopment, which may include a mix of residential housing and public park space.

Sherman Hospital Heliport was a private-use facility vital to the operations of the old Sherman Hospital, a Level II Trauma Center. Its primary purpose was to support the regional emergency medical services (EMS) system by facilitating medical evacuations (medevac). Air ambulances would use the heliport to rapidly transport critically injured patients from accident scenes or transfer patients from other, smaller medical facilities. This capability was crucial for providing immediate, life-saving care for time-sensitive conditions such as severe trauma, strokes, and heart attacks, allowing the hospital to serve a wider geographic area.

There are zero prospects for reopening the heliport at this specific location. The hospital it was built to serve has been gone for over a decade, and the entire site has been cleared for completely new, non-medical redevelopment. The region's medical air transport needs are now met by the heliport at the new Advocate Sherman Hospital.