The American Red Cross in Chicago is a vital and modern facility offering a range of services, with a primary focus on blood donation. The facility is clean, well-equipped, and conveniently located with street parking available. Visitors can expect competent and friendly staff who are dedicated to their work. The facility is accessible via elevator and provides a comfortable environment for platelet donation. 

While the organization's primary objective is to provide lifesaving services through blood donations, some visitors have noted mixed experiences with appointment scheduling and communication. However, the dedicated staff and efficient services offered at the facility are praised by many who have visited. Overall, the American Red Cross in Chicago serves as an important hub for blood donation and emergency assistance services in the area.

     Blood donation lot of helpful services. Saving lives out here  I know they are just a front for the global shadow vampire elite. Were it not for the 'donations' I can only imagine the carnage on the streets as the vampires are, once again, forced to feed among the populace. I am willing to do my part to make sure that the GSVE (global shadow vampire elite) are fed and taken care of.\n\nI donate to make sure that so many people can go about their days free of fear and dread for their own safety and safety of those they love. The staff here are polite and decent and are good at keeping up the cover that the 'donations' are for 'medical' purposes rather than for the satiation of the GSVE.\n\nI will continue to donate here, the staff is decent and kind (they themselves may not know their own position in ensuring the supply of nutrients to the GSVE so I hold them innocent).\n\nDo consider donating, the life you save may be your own, better to give up pints here and there than be bled dry in totality all at once.\n\n(Written to amuse myself, though, TBH the snacks keep getting smaller and smaller, like, a small teeny tiny bag of micro/mini Oreos? For my royal blood I should get full sized Oreos AND milk.....I get cost cutting but, yea, lay on the sugary goodness people. I am aware my double red brings in a pretty coin, you can do me the solid of not humiliating me with the smallest snack packs possible.)  Friendly, efficient staff made for a good experience. Accommodating staff helped me walk in give blood and almost made my corresponding doctor's appointment. They tried while following their rules, even though I pushed them to get me in and our to avoid another trip to this location which would have been inefficient for the cause. Thank Y'All... Always had a good experience with the certified trainers upon recertifying.  Went to donate blood. Rang door bell. Person told me I could wait inside. No one at the desk. No written instructions where to go or wait. Waited 25 minutes. No help so I left. Maybe they should put one of their phone solicitors at the front desk so people don't have to waste their time ignoring solicitation calls and waste their lunch break without giving blood. Walk-ins available. My husband has elevated iron and was told to donate whole blood in order to lower his levels.  I made the appointment for him, we went, everybody was super great and friendly. But, he keeps getting phone calls, emails, notifications, and even SNAIL MAIL about his blood type being the universal platelet donor, and they keep pressuring him to donate platelets. He works six days a week, only has one day off, and he cannot spend that day sitting there for three hours.  He has a fear of needles and does not do well, I explained this to them. He is able to tolerate whole blood donation, but they specifically keep pushing for platelet donation.\nShe then took it upon herself to say she will email him a video of the donation process (which included TWO lines, one in each arm)and then if he still would like to decide he can. I said that most likely won’t happen but go ahead and email him if you’d like.  We watched video and once he saw that, of course he said he can’t. Two days later, (TODAY) I receive another phone call (he put my number because he doesn’t like to talk for himself) and I said the same thing that I said to the last woman, he is not able to sit there for three hours with a needle in his arm.  She said well his donation has a potential to save three lives. I don’t know why are they are trying to force, harass, manipulate, and peer pressure people to do with their body, but this is not right. This is like pure a violation, now I fear for him like the movie “Turista 2006” at this point… You cannot bribe or force someone to do something that they don’t want to do.  This has to stop. NO MEANS NO. Please stop pushing your donors away… Vitalant is a great alternative, and they do not harass and bully their donors.   Good people   I can't do blood donation.. have to take appointment . They should help to people walking by .  Showed up and asked me what my appointment was for. Looked at the confirmation and said that it was cancelled. I never received any notifications nor was I contacted about the cancellation.  I was there to donate blood and they were very nice. Very thorough as well.      First time for me donating blood at the Red Cross I had a trainee take care of me and it's supervisor was right over his shoulder he did an excellent job can't say no good things about him by the time I go back in September he'll be training somebody Staff members who works here are great and such patience people. Attendants are kind, welcoming, and encouraging. It's hard to find my veins but they really need A- blood and i have plenty to spare so I have to donate. I recommend coming here if you can and it's close. Lots of snacks.  Was in a hous fire and they told me to come to the red cross office at 8:30am and the office does not open until 9. I had to stand outside in the freezing cold bc your employees do not know your hrs. Unacceptable.  Went for a appointment and it was canceled hours before I got there. Wasted 2 hours of my time and didn't even get a cancelation. It's  a shame when blood supply is low and you can't even donate   A clean, modern and central blood donation hub for Chicago with competent staff and new equipment.\n\nStreet parking are available on the entrance side.\n\nTo get in on weekends you need to ring the bel and take the elevator to third floor. Nice facility for platelet donation. Would have been better if there was some pillows and single hand option for donors to make it easier. I’m a healthcare worker who needs to take BLS recertification. I live in Chicago, where traffic is perpetually bad, and gave myself a 5-10 minute buffer to make it to the class based on Google maps estimated time. On my way it started pouring rain and traffic gridlocked on the highway. I ended up arriv

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