This abandoned steel mill is becoming America’s quantum future

The Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park could anchor a new ‘Silicon Prairie’ in the Midwest.

Rendering of the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park. [Image: Lamar Johnson Collaborative]

Bob Dylan, a native of the Upper Midwest, famously crooned that  “the times they are a-changin’.” Nowhere is that more prescient now than in and around the Midwest’s largest city, Chicago, which is attempting to shed its skin as a Rust Belt metropolis and be born anew in the twenty-first century as the capital of the “Silicon Prairie,” a hub for the burgeoning quantum computing industry.

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