Chicago, live since 2025, is in ORD1 in Elk Grove Village, the industrial park that moves more of the country's freight than any other and has quietly added packets to the manifest. We joined Equinix Chicago with Arelion, Cogent and NTT, and the first test instance answered Toronto at 8 ms — the fastest Canada hop in the fleet, from a city that is not even in Canada.
The site carries 0.48 Tbit/s of edge capacity at a 3 ms local median, with 13 ms to Ashburn and Dallas, 15 to New York and 40 to Seattle. Chicago is the middle of the country on purpose: no user in the continental US is ever far from it, which is exactly the argument for hosting where the railways always said you should.