The Chicago Plan Commission has approved plans for the new location of Advocate Health Trinity Hospital at 8000 South Lake Shore Drive in South Chicago. Situated at the intersection with South Brandon Avenue, the development will replace a large vacant lot north of the upcoming Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park.
Site map of new Advocate Trinity Hospital by CannonDesign
Massing of new Advocate Trinity Hospital by CannonDesign
Originally announced in December 2024, the proposal has undergone revisions since its initial iteration designed by CannonDesign. The 183,000-square-foot hospital will occupy the eastern end of the site and be surrounded by 368 parking spaces, along with a small garden for patients. The building itself will rise five stories and reach a maximum height of approximately 97 feet.
Rendering of new Advocate Trinity Hospital by CannonDesign
Floor plans of new Advocate Trinity Hospital by CannonDesign
The lower two floors will contain a 16-exam-room emergency department, a dialysis unit, three operating rooms, GI labs, a catheterization lab, an observation unit, an ICU, and an imaging center, along with support spaces such as a kitchen and waste disposal areas. The three upper floors will taper into a smaller linear tower containing 36 medical beds.
Rendering of new Advocate Trinity Hospital by CannonDesign
Rendering of new Advocate Trinity Hospital by CannonDesign
The structure will be clad in a metal panel façade with large floor-to-ceiling window bays. The $800 million hospital will serve as the first phase of a larger $1 billion campus planned by Advocate. All jobs from the current Advocate Trinity facility will be transferred to the new location. The team hopes to complete the project by June 2029.
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I am using the south works site as a location for a thesis project, where I’m creating a master plan for the whole site. I integrated my knowledge of this hospital into this plan and got the correct location and approximate land area, but thought the hospital would be much larger based on the size of the parcel it sits on. I planned a hospital that took up the whole parcel, but now I’m suddenly forced to shrink down my hospital plan with the reveal of the actual size of the hospital, as my planned hospital is probably like 5x the actual size of the planned hospital.
Anyways, regardless of my thesis project and all that, it’ll definitely be very beneficial to the community getting a new hospital down in this area of the city.
They definitely have land for the hospital to grow. It’s very contentious for new hospitals to pop up and “steal” clients from other territories. There’s a whole game of strategy most don’t know when it comes to trauma centers. Shiny new facilities usually add to that pressure.
If more growth is to come, they’re definitely setting off enough land to allow future expansion. They’re currently adding hospital beds to an area that hasn’t seen much development in recent decades. Maybe there was a shortage to begin with, but this will be a start.
Building this next to the Quantum Campus is great.
I don’t know if this hospital will relocate jobs or be a source of new jobs? Anyone know?
If it does bring a lot of new jobs, then combined with the Quantum Campus this is a hugely positive development for the area. We should see home & property values go up and may also start seeing new construction. Let’s hope that the anti-gentrification haters who seem hell bent on stymieing any new investment don’t get in the way