The Chicago Plan Commission has signed off on a major health care shake-up on the Far South Side, voting on March 21, 2026, to approve a new Advocate Trinity Hospital at 8000 South Lake Shore Drive in the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park. The five-story, technology-forward facility is designed to replace the aging Trinity campus on 93rd Street and to serve as the hub for a broader network of neighborhood clinics and services. Hospital officials say the project is meant to modernize inpatient care while expanding outpatient and community-based health programs across the South Side.
What the Plan Commission approved
According to Chicago YIMBY, the Plan Commission backed a five-story, roughly 183,000-square-foot hospital planned for the eastern edge of the Quantum Park site. The design places about 36 medical beds on three upper floors, stacked above two lower levels that would house a 16-exam-room emergency department, an ICU, a dialysis unit, a catheterization lab, and three operating rooms, along with imaging and gastrointestinal labs and an observation unit.
The proposal also includes roughly 368 parking spaces, a metal-panel exterior with large floor-to-ceiling windows, and a small patient garden. Chicago YIMBY reported a roughly $800 million cost for the hospital itself and a $1 billion buildout for the broader Advocate campus planned at the site.
Funding and capacity
Advocate Health has pitched the project as a cornerstone of a $1 billion South Side investment that combines neighborhood care sites, workforce initiatives, and a new state-of-the-art hospital. As outlined by Advocate Health, the system has pledged to preserve jobs at the current Trinity campus while hiring additional staff across the region.
In a December 2024 release, Advocate Health described roughly $300 million going toward the new hospital building and listed a 52-bed layout, including 36 surgery beds. That bed count has shifted in the course of subsequent design and regulatory review, as the project team has refined the small-format replacement concept.
Official filings and timeline
On the regulatory side, state records show the project moving through Illinois oversight. The Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board posted an establishment notice for Advocate Trinity Hospital (project #25-003) describing a 40-bed, small-format replacement facility and listing a project cost of $319,557,482, according to the Illinois HFSRB…