Northwestern Medicine to close Crystal Lake fitness center to users' dismay - Shaw Local

The announced closure of the Northwestern Medicine Fitness Center successful Crystal Lake has immoderate residents frustrated implicit the deficiency of alternatives.

The fittingness halfway notified its members connected Oct. 28 that the Crystal Lake tract would adjacent connected Dec. 30, leaving conscionable the Huntley location.

“We person made the hard prime to centralize each fittingness halfway services successful McHenry County,” Northwestern Medicine enactment said successful the letter. “We regret immoderate inconvenience this causes you. I anticipation that you volition bask the enhanced acquisition astatine our Huntley location.”

While the fittingness halfway has promised to reimburse afloat oregon partial prepaid rank plans, respective residents said they are near wondering however and wherever they tin proceed definite circumstantial fittingness programs.

“Everyone successful my fittingness people is unhappy astir the halfway closing,” said Crystal Lake nonmigratory Robert Buck, who does h2o aerobics successful the fittingness center’s lukewarm h2o pool.

The nearest alternative, the Sage YMCA, doesn’t person a lukewarm h2o pool, and the Huntley determination – which is located astir 20 minutes from the Crystal Lake installation – is excessively acold distant for astir successful the people to thrust to.

The determination came arsenic a implicit astonishment to patrons of the fittingness center, Buck said, who added helium hoped an entity similar the Crystal Lake Park District would instrumentality implicit the gathering to support it arsenic a fittingness venue.

“What are you going to bash with a installation that has 3 pools and a locker room?” Buck said. “You can’t marque a bowling alley retired of it.”

Crystal Lake nonmigratory Rozanne Ronen besides described traveling to Huntley arsenic “not an option” and described the announcement arsenic “very upsetting.”

For Ronen, the h2o aerobics is not conscionable astir staying successful shape; Ronen’s doc recommended the workout arsenic a mode to negociate arthritis, she said.

“This is simply a immense nonaccomplishment for the assemblage and unit members,” Ronen said. “I anticipation determination is immoderate mode that this outstanding installation tin beryllium saved.”

Questions provided to a Northwestern Medicine spokesperson Thursday were not responded to by property time.