A town hall is scheduled for Sept. 4 to discuss the planned closure of the maternity ward at Ascension Alexian Brothers Medical Center in Elk Grove Village. Courtesy of Ascension Illinois

Elk Grove Village officials have scheduled a town hall for Ascension Illinois executives to answer questions about the proposed closure of the maternity ward at Ascension Alexian Brothers Medical Center.

The public meeting, scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Sept. 4 at Belvedere Events & Banquets, was prompted by outcry from nurses, village officials and residents after the hospital announced plans to discontinue its 28-bed inpatient obstetrics department. Those services — including all baby deliveries — would be consolidated at sister hospital Saint Alexius Medical Center in Hoffman Estates.

Since the July 1 an

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