Max Blaisdell
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- Aug 27, 2026
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South Side Residents Press Johnson to Halt Quantum Campus (opens the original)
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This story was first published by the Hyde Park Herald. Hundreds of South Side residents packed the gymnasium at Arnold Mireles Academy on Saturday, August 15, shouting down Mayor Brandon Johnson and booing when he declined to call for a full stop to construction of the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park (IQMP), the $9 billion development rising on the former U.S. Steel South Works site in South Chicago. The town hall, called “Community Over Quantum” and organized by the community group
New Haymarket Book Rewrites the Narrative of Fred Hampton’s Murder (opens the original)
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Before dawn on December 4, 1969, then-Cook County State’s Attorney Edward Hanrahan sent a squad of police officers into a Black Panther Party apartment on the West Side. Officers opened fire with rifles, a submachine gun, shotguns, and handguns, killing Illinois Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton and fellow party member Mark Clark and wounding four other Panthers. Within hours, Hanrahan held a news conference and falsely claimed the officers had been met with a fierce shootout. Police lef
University of Chicago Medicine to Open Freestanding Cancer Center in April 2027 (opens the original)
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The University of Chicago Medicine’s new cancer center is on track to open next spring, officials told South Side residents on Tuesday, July 14, marking the final stretch of a yearslong project to bring comprehensive cancer care to a community where death rates from the disease are nearly twice the national rate. The AbbVie Foundation Cancer Pavilion, a 575,000-square-foot facility located north of 57th Street between Maryland and Drexel avenues on the Medical Center’s West Hyde Park campus, is
U. of C. Scientists Call for Halt to Quantum Construction (opens the original)
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A group of graduate students, research staff, and scientists, many affiliated with the University of Chicago, is joining the opposition to the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, arguing that their technical expertise gives them the ability to challenge some of the environmental and scientific claims made in support of the $9 billion development. The group, Science for the People Chicago, released a report in early July alongside a public webinar outlining what members describe as months
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