Healthcare
Construction Team Chosen for $320M Hospital on Chicago's Far Southeast Side
Where will the new 52-bed hospital owned by Advocate Health be located and what other major healthcare upgrades are planned?
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Chicago Plan Commission on March 20 approved the planned five-story, 183,000-sq-ft hospital
A construction team has been named to build a new $320-million hospital in Chicago, planned to replace the roughly 120-year-old Advocate Trinity Hospital and part of a $1-billion-plus project set to transform healthcare on the city’s far southeast side.
The team named by the North Carolina-based hospital system, Advocate Heath, includes Power Construction and Ujamaa as general contractor, CannonDesign as architect and Magnusson Klemencic Associates and SR+A as structural engineers.
The Chicago Plan Commission on March 20 approved the five-story, 183,000-sq-ft hospital set for a 23-acre vacant lot at 8000 DuSable South Lake Shore Drive. It is just north of the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, a 440-acre quantum innovation campus under construction on the former U.S. Steel South Works site, and just inland from Lake Michigan.
The hospital plan calls for52 beds, three operating rooms, support and administrative rooms and 368 parking spaces.
Construction is expected to start this year and be completed by June 2029. When the new hospital is operational. the current Trinity Hospital at 2320 East 93rd Street will be demolished, turned into green space and eventually redeveloped.
“The establishment of this replacement hospital and discontinuation of the outdated facility are part of a broader strategic vision and plan to improve access to care and health care outcomes on the South Side through an expansive ambulatory program in the area,” Advocate Health states in its application to the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board, which approved the plan in June 2025.
The hospital design is proposed to feature bird-safe technology to deter collisions, native and adapted plantings to support migratory birds and pollinator species, and stormwater management systems to prevent pollutants from entering Lake Michigan and the Calumet River. In addition, Advocate will remediate any environmental issues before construction of the new hospital begins, the hospital system said.
Advocate Health also plans to spend $500 million to develop ten new Healthcare Neighborhood Care locations located in churches and community centers to handle health issues such as the flu or common cold, expand an outpatient clinic and add a mobile medicine vehicle to provide primary care access at multiple sites.
It also plans to invest more than $200 million in hospital and outpatient programs and services, expanding management of chronic disease and addressing social factors that impact health such as access to healthy food, housing, transportation and prescriptions and to spend $25 million on workforce training efforts.
"This represents an important step in the process as we continue our work to address long-standing gaps in access to care for patients throughout our South Side communities," the hospital system said.
The hospital plan must still be approved by the Chicago City Council.
