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Tom Kuczmarski and Luke Tanen: Chicago has reinvented itself from a Rust Belt city to an innovation center

Chicago Tribune – Twenty-five years ago, when people talked about innovation in America, Chicago was rarely the first city mentioned — if at all. Remember the Rust Belt? The conversation…

Harley Johnson: Here’s why concerns over Chicago’s quantum park should give way to hope

Chicago Tribune – The former U.S. Steel South Works site on Chicago’s South Side is giving rise to something that hasn’t been there in decades — hope. I first saw…

Rashid Bashir: Illinois invented the future. This time, the quantum park will help us keep it.

Chicago Tribune – Nick Holonyak Jr. invented the world’s first practical visible-light LED in Syracuse, New York, in 1962. The son of an Illinois coal miner, he earned three degrees…

IBM announces new innovation center at Chicago quantum park, creating 750 new tech jobs

Chicago Tribune – Building on its growing Chicago quantum footprint, IBM is planning to open a FutureNow delivery center at the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, with a commitment to…

Work begins on South Side’s massive new quantum computing hub

Chicago Tribune – Work has begun on the state’s new multibillion-dollar quantum computing campus on Chicago’s South Side. The lakefront site for the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park was for decades U.S.…

Quantum Park, approved by City Council, adds IBM as newest tenant

Chicago Tribune – The Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, a groundbreaking computer research development planned for the former U.S. Steel site on the city’s South Side, has lined up another…

Chicago announces ‘transformational’ quantum computer commercial development at fallow South Works site

Chicago Tribune – In what could be a transformational development for Chicago, California-based tech company PsiQuantum is investing billions in the long-dormant South Works site in a quest to build…