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A construction team has been named to build a new $320 million hospital in Chicago, slated to replace the roughly 120-year-old Advocate Trinity Hospital and part of a more than $1 billion project to transform health care in the city’s Southeast End.
The team appointed by North Carolina 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-square-foot hospital for a 23-acre site 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 US Steel South Works site, and inland from Lake Michigan.
The hospital plan foresees 52 beds, three operating theatres, support and administrative rooms and 368 parking spaces.
Construction is expected to begin 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, converted to green space and eventually redeveloped.
“Establishing this replacement hospital and discontinuing the outdated facility is part of a larger strategic vision and plan to improve access to care and health care outcomes on the South Side through an expansive outpatient program in the area,” Advocate Health states in its application to the Illinois Health Services and Facilities Review Board, which approved the plan in June 2025.
The hospital’s design is proposed to include 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 address any environmental issues before construction begins on the new hospital, the hospital system said.
Advocate Health also plans to spend $500 million to develop ten new neighborhood health care locations located in churches and community centers to treat health problems such as the flu or the common cold, expand an outpatient clinic and add a mobile medicine vehicle to provide access to primary care in multiple locations.
He also plans to invest more than $200 million in inpatient and outpatient programs and services, expanding chronic disease management and addressing social factors that affect health, such as access to healthy food, housing, transportation and prescriptions, and spend $25 million on workforce training efforts.
“This represents an important step in the process as we continue to work to address long-standing gaps in patient access to care in our South Side communities,” the hospital system said.
The hospital plan still needs to be approved by the Chicago City Council.
