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IQMP Announces Inaugural Leadership Team Heading Illinois’ Quantum Park

Quantum Insider – The Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park announced the inaugural leadership team that will be steering operations for the historic campus located at the former South Works site…

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Quantum park adds two more U of I leaders to senior team

Crain’s Chicago Business – Two more senior University of Illinois staffers have signed on to help turn the quantum computing park on the South Side into reality. Read the Full…

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Gov. JB Pritzker speaking at the Chicago Quantum Exchange Summit

Gov. Pritzker says Illinois is at the forefront of quantum computing

CBS – Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is pushing to turn Illinois into a hub for an innovative field of the tech industry. He spoke at the kickoff of the Chicago…

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Gov. JB Pritzker speaking at the Chicago Quantum Exchange Summit

How Chicago got ahead of the curve on quantum computing

Crain’s Chicago Business – Long before Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker was cajoling state legislators to give him $500 million to bet on quantum computing, University of Chicago President Robert Zimmer…

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From Steel to Silicon: Chicago’s South Works Site to Host Largest U.S. Quantum Computing Hub

Area Development – Chicago’s South Works site once housed the bustling heart of America’s steel industry, but soon it will be home to the future of computing, as PsiQuantum partners…

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Pritzker aims to make Illinois lead the charge in quantum computing

Chicago Sun-Times – Quantum technology is no longer an experiment. Huge investments are coming in quantum science. Gov. JB Pritzker has called for $500 million in public and private funding,…

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Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park Announces Board of Managers

Chicago Citizen – The Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, LLC, the University-Related Organization (URO) operating the quantum park located at USX on the South Side of Chicago, announced its Board…

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Pritzker Says Illinois’ Investments in Quantum Technology Could Deliver ‘History-Altering Innovations’

WTTW – At negative 450 degrees Fahrenheit, helium gas becomes a liquid, which is when Humboldt Park-based EeroQ Quantum Hardware is able to control and float single electrons over the…

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U of I, state name quantum-research park board of directors

Crain’s Chicago Business – A University of Illinois offshoot has named a board to oversee the state’s new quantum research campus that will be built on the former U.S. Steel…

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AOL’s Founder Predicted a Midwest Tech Hub: A Decade Later, Illinois’ Quantum Ecosystem is Fulfilling the Prophecy

Quantum Insider – The idea that a tech hub could rise in the Midwest once seemed improbable. For decades, Silicon Valley has long been synonymous with “epicenter of innovation.” However,…

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