CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--IKEA, the world’s leading home furnishings retailer, today announced it submitted plans to the City of Joliet, IL for a second distribution center – to accompany the terminal previously announced and planned to open in Summer 2017. In February 2015, IKEA advanced the development of its previously approved 1.4-million-square-foot Midwest distribution center on 72 acres of land already purchased in 2008 at the Laraway Crossings Business Park in Joliet, IL, 48 m