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TECHNOLOGY: The Infrastructure of Innovation

Site Selection – From Teklab in Collinsville to IQMP in Chicago, Illinois turns R&D into new opportunity. Technology investment does not always arrive in the form of a software company…

Chicago State University Prepares Students for Illinois’ Quantum Workforce

Chicago Citizen – Chicago State University (CSU) is preparing students for Illinois’ growing quantum industry as employers commit to more than 1,000 jobs at the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park…

CHICAGO RESIDENTS WANT QUANTUM

Chicago Citizen – We are residents, business owners, and community leaders from South Chicago and the area surrounding the former U.S. Steel South Works site, and we want to make something…

Chicago State University program helping to connect quantum, semiconductor students with opportunities

CBS News Chicago – As a new quantum computing campus goes up in South Chicago, an exclusive program at Chicago State is helping to connect students with quantum opportunities and…

WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT: Jobs, Innovation & Opportunity Collide in Illinois

Site Selection – Workforce opportunities reach every corner of the Prairie State. What makes Illinois one of the best places for workforce development in the United States? A statewide commitment…

As quantum’s presence grows on the Southeast Side, Chicago State University students eye future careers

Chicago Tribune – In hushed voices in a darkened room, John and James Kountz stared intently at what looked to any unsuspecting person like a computer screen inside a metal…

QUANTUM AND MICRO ELECTRONICS

Site Selection – If you ever have doubts about the materiality of the quantum computing world, go to the place that specializes in putting high-falutin’ ideas into physical form: mHUB,…

This resident supports the quantum campus

Hyde Park Herald – To the editor, I grew up on Chicago’s South Side, where the former U.S. Steel South Works site has sat vacant most of my life. For…

South Chicago business hopes new quantum computing campus brings growth to neighborhood

CBS News Chicago – They’re not regular donuts, they’re quantum donuts. That’s the pitch from a business hoping to get more dough as a massive new quantum computing campus continues…

Editorial: Quantum is not AI, folks, and Chicago is not building a lakefront data center

Chicago Tribune – Repeat after us: The Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park (IQMP), in development on 128 acres of the former U.S. Steel South Works site on Chicago’s South Side,…