Upside Foods, a cultivated meat, poultry and seafood company, is announcing that it selected the greater Chicagoland region for its first large-scale cultivated meat production plant. The 187,000-square-foot plant, based in Glenview, Illinois, will start by producing ground cultivated chicken products, with plans to expand to other species and whole-textured formats in the future. With an initial capacity to produce millions of pounds of cultivated meat products per year and the potential to expand to over 30 million pounds, the plant represents a significant step forward in achieving the company’s vision of creating a more humane, sustainable and resilient food system.