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Chicago's AI ecosystem: world-class research from UChicago, TTIC, Argonne, and Fermilab; enterprise-focused applied AI in healthtech and logistics; talent costs well below coastal hubs.…
Chicago's tech ecosystem is not a surprise hub trying to prove itself. It is a mature, diversified innovation economy built on fintech, health tech,…
Motorola Solutions has been building tech from Chicago for 96 years, and its $10 billion public safety and enterprise AI business is the city's…
Outcome Health, once a celebrated Chicago healthtech startup, was later exposed for fraud, inflating revenue by $1 billion through false advertising sales. Convicted founders…
The Illinois EV corridor's revival centers on saving Belvidere's plant, idled in 2023, through UAW negotiations and federal funding. This complex struggle contrasts with…
The Aurora supercomputer at Argonne is one of the world's first exascale machines, built for AI and science. Why one of Earth's fastest computers…
Google is turning the Thompson Center into a 1.2 million square foot regional hub, the biggest tech real estate bet in Chicago history, while…
The 2022 Chicago corporate exodus saw Boeing, Caterpillar, and Citadel move their headquarters out of Illinois in seven weeks. What it meant, and what…
The Rivian Normal plant turned a downstate factory town into the anchor of an Illinois EV hub. How it happened, why Normal won it,…
CHICAGO, Sept. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — In honor of Gospel Music Heritage Month, which takes place annually in September, McDonald’s is serving inspiration with a side…
In 2021 Chicago minted around a dozen unicorns and celebrated Unicorn Day: project44, ShipBob, M1 Finance, Cameo, ActiveCampaign and more. The boom, and the…
The Batman has hit Chicago for additional filming as production carries on. Chicago has returned to its old role of playing portions of Gotham City.…
VillageMD's 2020 Walgreens megadeal, and a pandemic that moved venture capital to Zoom, reset the odds for Chicago startups and set up the 2021…
Tempus Labs became Chicago's standout unicorn in 2018, opening a historic run. How Eric Lefkofsky's precision-medicine company built on the Groupon and Grubhub era.
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