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- ↑ "Rev. Louis Rawls, 97. Pastor founded church, businesses". Chicago Tribune . May 2, 2002. Archived from the original on December 1, 2013.
- ↑ "First Black Religious Hospital Is Opened By Group In Chicago". Jet . Johnson Publishing Company. March 9, 1972. p. 29.
- ↑ Dr. Louis Rawls Holds Fundraiser for Black Hospital. Johnson Publishing Company. May 9, 1974. p. 26.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ↑ "Tabernacle Hospital's license is put in jeopardy,", Chicago Tribune, September 16, 1977, section 4, p. 3, http://archives.chicagotribune.rcom/1977/09/16/page/45/article/tabernacle-hospitals-license-is-put-in-jeopardy.
- ↑ "Tabernacle Hospital being closed", Chicago Tribune, September 23, 1977, section 1, p. 3, http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1977/09/23/page/3/article/baby-left-in-alley-back-with-mom.
- ↑ "Hospital Closing to Jar Patients, Employees," unidentified newspaper article, reproduced in Nathaniel Wesley, Jr., Black Hospitals in America: History, Contributions and Demise, Tallahassee, NWR Associates Publications, 2010, ISBN 9780615382395, pp. 125-126.