According to an October 14 posting on journal-topics.com (an online news source for Chicago’s northwest suburbs) Lifesource (a Glenview-based company) and up to 400 of its employees may soon be relocating to new four-story building in Rosemont, on the west side of the Tri-State Tollway, just south of Bryn Mawr Avenue.
Lifesource ITxM (which stands for Institute for Transfusion Medicine) is part of the fourth largest blood collection establishment in the United States. Lifesource currently operates the largest blood center in Illinois, with 22 donor centers including the one at its local headquarters on Milwaukee Avenue. Lifesource is a non-profit corporation established in 1987 through the merger of the Blood Center of Northern Illinois and the Red Cross Blood Services-Mid America Region. It distributes a half-million blood products annually to roughly 60 area hospitals in meeting the need for patient transfusion therapy.
LifeSource recruits donors, collects bone marrow, and draws blood to separate into useful components like: whole blood, platelets, plasma, stem cells and other special products for hospitals and healthcare customers.
ITxM is the parent company of multiple corporate entities that includes Lifesource and Central Blood Bank, located in Pittsburgh, PA.
On Monday, November 2, Rosemont Zoning Board of Appeals members will be conducting a public hearing to consider issuing a Special Use Permit to allow Lifesource to operate in the village. The Special Use would allow laboratory space for blood testing; facilities for blood manufacturing, labeling, freezing, refrigerating, storage; facilities for the distribution of blood products; and facilities for the testing and storage of cord blood.
Public relations manager for Lifesource, Tammy Basile, said that the company is not in a position to confirm any information related to project development adding, however, that the not-for-profit corporation is looking at various possibilities.