It is 2050. The Chicago region is the beating pulse of Earth’s most prized commodity — information. We are still a trading center, having moved deftly in the 20th century from stockyards to steel to ...

Jeanne Whalen, economics reporter at The Wall Street Journal, explains why Chicago is betting on quantum computing as the ...

The city is betting on a promising—but commercially unproven—technology.

This story is part of Quantum Crossroads, a series examining the impact of the quantum computing megadevelopment in South Chicago. Quantum computing uses quantum mechanics—mathematical laws that ...

The quantum computing future is rapidly reshaping how scientists think about computation, with machines moving toward fault-tolerant systems capable of solving problems beyond classical limits. From ...

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We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. You've probably heard the term "quantum computing" at some point and wondered what it meant. It's not a term that's easy to understand, and ...

A new quantum computing technology campus is on its way to Chicago’s South Side, and local K–12 students were recently given the chance to design their own versions. When completed, the Illinois ...

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