The Chicago Sky will break ground this fall on a purpose-built training center, delivering on team ownership’s promise to provide exclusive player facilities.

The $38 million facility will be built in partnership with the Village of Bedford Park and located next to the Wintrust Sports Complex just south of Midway Airport. The Sky expect construction to be completed by December 2025 and the 40,000-square-foot facility to be fully available for the 2026 WNBA season.

For co-owner and operating chair Nadia Rawlinson, completion of this facility is a crucial step forward amid an era of rapid growth for women’s basketball.

“We aren’t derivative of anyone,” Rawlinson said. “We stand on our own two feet. We are an organization that has our own needs, wants, desires, goals and outcomes that we’re driving toward that are uniquely ours.