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


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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