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The former U. S. Steel South Works and former Texaco refinery in Lockport selected for hundreds of millions of dollars in investment
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The new ad real estate conversion task has the potential to take Chicago beyond its advertising and place the city’s South Side at the forefront of the post-advertising future.
Such hopes arose when Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker revealed his plan to work with the U. S. Department of Defense in 2019. The U. S. Department of Homeland Security has launched a U. S. development company to further expand the amount in Illinois, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
The hope is that the focus on quantum studies — a new box that runs from research to immediate encounter with disease, to adjustments to the system at the molecular level and the security of virtual communications — will take shape on a campus committed to the box. The top applicants come from two sites on the south side: the former U. S. Steel South Works and a former Texaco oil refinery in the Lockport neighborhood.
The metal plant is in the hands of Japan’s Nippon Steel, which recently purchased the remaining assets from U. S. Steel. Chevron Corporation owns the former Lockport refinery.
A location would be selected along with the entities expected to be part of the campus, Pritzker said.
The state would work with the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to expand quantum computing technologies from a “Quantum Benchmarking Initiative,” or “QBI. ”
“We are the only state that has proposed a quantum campus and a quantum plan,” Pritzker told the news outlet. “And the fact that the federal government is stepping up and looking for a partner, especially DARPA, is wonderful validation. “
DARPA’s project is to promote technologies with national security programs; it is sometimes considered the leading company in the progress of the Internet.
Pritzker is running to make Chicago “the Silicon Valley of quantum development. ”
The region has a base of existing assets in the field, adding study efforts at the University of Chicago and Chicago Quantum Exchange, a joint venture established seven years ago through the U. S. Department of Energy’s Argonne and Fermi National Laboratories. U. S. University of Chicago campus on the south side of Hyde Park and includes the school, as well as the University of Illinois, Northwestern University, Purdue University in Indiana, and the University of Wisconsin as partners.
Pritzker’s 2025 budget included $300 million in public investment for campus development. DARPA said it would spend “up to $140 million” on a project.
The state predicts that a fully evolved quantum campus would generate “tens of thousands, or more, of jobs. “
Chicago already hosts the Chicago Quantum Exchange, launched in 2017 with Argonne and Fermi National Laboratories, and has one of the largest quantum researchers in the world.
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