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Taxpayers are out more than $30 million on University of Illinois' scuttled South Loop project

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Seven years ago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Gov. Bruce Rauner invited dignitaries to a 62-acre plot of land in the South Loop and offered a bold promise: The long-vacant property would be transformed, with a high-tech research facility to be built there that would give a massive economic boost to the city of Chicago.The University of Illinois would operate the proposed $285 million facility, dubbed the Discovery Partners Institute. It would sit on a…

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Taxpayers are out more than $30 million on University of Illinois' scuttled South Loop project

Seven years ago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Gov. Bruce Rauner invited dignitaries to a 62-acre plot of land in the South Loop and offered a bold promise: The long-vacant property would be transformed, with a high-tech research facility to be built there that would give a massive economic boost to the city of Chicago.The University of Illinois would operate the proposed $285 million facility, dubbed the Discovery Partners Institute. It would sit on a…

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Taxpayers are out more than $30 million on University of Illinois’ scuttled South Loop project – Chicago Sun-Times

The university pulled the plug in October on the planned research hub on an acre south of Roosevelt Road along the east bank of the Chicago River now being marketed as The 78. The U. of I. instead said it would turn its vision to the south and become part of a quantum computing research park that Gov. JB Pritzker wants to build on a vacant, 300-acre site at East 79th Street and South DuSable Lake Shore Drive once occupied by US Steel.

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WirePoints Illinois Financial News broke the news in on Friday, January 31, 2025.
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