Data centers near O’Hare win nearly $100M in local tax breaks, leaving suburban homeowners to cover the gap

Chicago Tribune · Alex Nitkin, A.D. Quig · 2026-08-23 10:00 UTC

Northwest suburban data centers had nearly $2 billion knocked off their taxable property values, an Illinois Answers Project/Chicago Tribune analysis shows.

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