ProCure takes legal action in proton center battle

A company seeking to build a proton therapy cancer treatment center is laying the groundwork to sue Northern Illinois University, claiming the school violated state antitrust laws and misled state officials in planning its West Chicago center. Bloomington, Ind.-based ProCure Treatment Centers Inc. filed a petition Tuesday in Cook County Circuit Court, asking for all documents used by NIU in planning for approval to build the Proton Treatment and Research Center in the DuPage National Technology Park in West Chicago. Building on NIU's center began this summer. The petition claims the DeKalb university misled state regulators in an effort to prevent competition from ProCure, along with its partner, Central DuPage Hospital in Glen Ellyn, in th