Gov. JB Pritzker’s vision for South Chicago to become the Silicon Valley of quantum computing is taking shape.

Developers and elected officials broke ground Tuesday on the state’s quantum campus, where Palo Alto, California-based PsiQuantum will build the country’s first utility-scale quantum computer. The first phase is about 30 acres and designed by Lamar Johnson Collaborative.

It comes more than a year after Pritzker, alongside developers, city and county leaders, announced the 128-acre Illinois Quantum & Microelectronics Park at the former U.S. Steel South Works facility. Co-developers CRG and Related Midwest purchased the land from U.S. Steel this month — the last step needed after the project netted city approvals last year. The developers received financing for the land purchase f

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