Located at the Cermak IBX Campus, CH1 is situated near one of the top ten global financial centers and many multinational corporate headquarters as well as members of the Equinix Financial Ecosystem. It is also in the same building as CH2 and CH4. CH1 offers connectivity to Equinix Cloud Exchange™. The main section is a 9-story two-way flat slab concrete building with a concrete-steel composite deck as the infill sections. CH1 is located 10 miles from Chicago Midway International Airport (MDW).

Equinix Chicago data center CH1 located in one of the world's top 10 global financial centers, supplies interconnection services to enhance performance and control latency targets.