UPSIDE Foods to open commercial-scale plant in Chicago

Commercial plant designed to produce “millions of pounds” of ground cultivated chicken products annually.

Berkeley, Calif.-based cultivated meat producer UPSIDE Foods today announced that it has selected the greater Chicagoland region for its first commercial-scale cultivated meat production plant.

The 187,000-square-foot-plant, to be based in Glenview, Ill., will be called Rubicon — a reference to the river crossed by Julius Caesar in 49 BC and used since then to…