Amazon to open its 1st Illinois warehouse

The Chicago Tribune reports:

Amazon.com and state officials will announce Tuesday plans for new facilities in the Chicagoland region that would employ at least 1,000 people within three years, according to the state's economic development agency.

"We're beginning site selection activities now, and we plan to have multiple facilities of various kinds in Illinois by the end of 2017," Paul Misener, vice president of global public policy at Amazon, said in a statement.

Even Illinois will have Amazon employees.