72 New EV Fast Chargers Now Operating In Or Coming To Illinois

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In the last six months or so, there have been a number of news articles about Illinois EV charger expansion:

Here comes another 72 public fast charger ports for the same state. The XCharge North America and JOJO Superfast EV Charging partnership has already made two new fast charging hubs operational and will install seven more. Each has or will have eight charging points.

The new charging hubs:

• Menards Crestwood (now operational)
• Menards Bridgeview (now operational)
• Menards Hodgkins (May 2026)
• Menards Tinley Park (May 2026)
• Menards Sterling (Q3 2026)
• Menards Freeport (Q3 2026)
• Menards Galesburg (Q3 2026)
• Main St. Carbondale (Q3 2026)
• Aurora Outlet Mall (Q3 2026)

“As an Illinois native, I am incredibly proud to bring this level of infrastructure to my home state. But we aren’t just installing hardware—we are providing Illinois drivers a more efficient, reliable charging experience to replace range anxiety with total confidence,” said Aatish Patel, President and Co-founder of XCharge North America. 

The “little” EV charger installation news articles might not seem newsworthy, but they are not about installations that exist in isolation. The little, medium-sized ones and large ones are happening across US states, regions, and the whole country. They also continue to add to existing public charging infrastructure sort of like a jigsaw puzzle being completed piece by piece.

As public EV charging infrastructure expands, more and more members of the public should or can begin to understand electric vehicles do not need excessive amounts of range. They only need enough to be charged at home and/or to get to the next public EV charger to recharge. When there are public EV chargers every 35 miles of road and interstate, there’s no need for an EV with 500 miles of range or more. There are many EVs right now that already have plenty of range, and more public EV chargers are being installed continually.

This EV charger expansion is a success story, and the critics, haters, and trolls never have any solutions to offer. To them, it’s just more fossil fuels, gasmobiles, and dieselmobiles which are the harm.