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State approves UChicago Medicine’s $815M plan to build Chicago’s first freestanding cancer care and research facility

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The Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board approved the University of Chicago Medicine’s plans to build an $815 million, 575,000-square-foot building dedicated to cancer research and care on its medical campus on the city’s South Side.

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