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AI Infrastructure Construction in Illinois

Tracked construction projects and public signals across Illinois.

Tracked projects
3
Sectors
1

ScopePlex is tracking 3 projects in Illinois across 1 sector Data Center. Each is built from public construction-phase records — permits, interconnection filings, EPC awards, and capex disclosures — so BD teams at specialty contractors can see which Illinois projects are entering the window where subcontract relationships are won, months before the formal RFP. Counts are confidence-scored and refreshed continuously.

Market context

Illinois's data center market concentrates in the Chicago metro — Elk Grove Village hosts one of the densest colocation clusters in the country — with hyperscale campuses spreading into the collar counties and downstate. Northern Illinois sits in ComEd/PJM territory while much of downstate is served through MISO, splitting the state into two distinct interconnection regimes.

Watch ComEd's substation and transmission investment and its large-load interconnection pipeline, the PJM and MISO queues, and Illinois EPA permitting for on-site generation. County and municipal approvals in Cook, DuPage, Will, and DeKalb counties — plus state data center tax-incentive agreements — regularly identify projects and their scale early.

By sector
Projects in Illinois
· Kendall County (served communities); route also crosses DuPage/Will/Kane jurisdictions