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Fireworks Erupt At Meeting On Planned Quantum Computing Campus At Old South Chicago Steel Mill Site
The land, adjacent to the South Chicago neighborhood, was once home to the US Steel South Works plant.
March 19, 2025
A gathering of neighbors on Chicago's South Side turned fiery Tuesday night, as they call for answers on a big new development planned for a huge swath of vacant land on the lakefront.
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The land, adjacent to the South Chicago neighborhood, was once home to the US Steel South Works plant. But the plant closed in 1992, and the site has sat empty ever since despite various plans to redevelop it over the years — and a music festival staged by the Dave Matthews Band in 2011.
Now, construction is set to come to the site at last to turn it into a quantum computing campus — and neighbors are worried about what that construction could release into the environment.
