This was passed to me and I thought others might be interested. Lee, consider a link? http://members.dencity.com/asylums/index.html It concerns itself with state hospitals that were open in the later part of the 19th century. It evens has a category for some of the hospitals. Scroll down to Illinois and there is a blurb about the K3 hospital with real dates. Cheryl Wixon Gocken