{"id":987844,"date":"2026-08-08T00:29:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/987844\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:29:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:29:16","slug":"data-centers-in-illinois-committee-approves-plan-to-convert-part-of-300-west-adams-street-in-chicago-loop-into-data-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/987844\/","title":{"rendered":"Data centers in Illinois: Committee approves plan to convert part of 300 West Adams Street in Chicago Loop into data center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ByABC7 Chicago Digital Team  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"WLS logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/origin-wls.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Friday, August 7, 2026 9:49PM<\/p>\n<p>A landmark Loop office building is a step closer to being partially converted into a data center.<\/p>\n<p>WLS<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">CHICAGO (WLS) &#8212; A landmark Loop office building is a step closer to being partially converted into a data center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Permit Review Committee of the Commission on Chicago Landmarks signed off on the plan on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/watch\/live\/11064984\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24\/7. Click here to watch<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It would transform the lower half of the 12-story office building at 300 West Adams Street into a data center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The approval comes despite pushback from a preservationist group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The full commission will now review the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WLS-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ByABC7 Chicago Digital Team Friday, August 7, 2026 9:49PM A landmark Loop office building is a step closer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":987845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[396191,960,8447,5462,5880,8296,396187,62766,5386,1818,8448,396188,396190,396189,388307],"class_list":["post-987844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-396191","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-loop","tag-chicago-news","tag-data-center","tag-data-centers","tag-data-centers-in-illinois","tag-downtown-chicago","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-the-loop","tag-what-are-data-centers","tag-what-are-data-centers-used-for","tag-what-do-data-centers-do","tag-what-is-a-data-center"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117057066619346429","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}