The Discovery Partners Institute is a planned facility that will focus on specialized research in big data, food and agriculture and other fields. Situated on land that will be donated along the Chicago River the campus is expected to have 90 faculty and about 2,000 students. U of I System President Tim Killeen says the DPI is going to be a massive project.

 

 

U of I System President Tim Killeen says this is the right move at the right time to keep human capital in the state. 

 

 

Partners include the state, the city of Chicago along with the private institutions University of Chicago and Northwestern.