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Chicago’s newest neighborhood

DPI is the anchor of a new neighborhood, in which 10 million square feet of office, retail, residential and hotel space has been mapped.

  • Research facilities
  • Classrooms
  • Executive conference center
  • Housing for researchers & students
  • Tech companies
  • Corporate R&D Groups

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R&D spending has stagnated in Illinois in recent decades. But the most recent data available — from 2016 — shows an important uptick, largely attributed to the growth of business R&D in the food and IT industries. If we don’t innovate, we fall behind. Let’s keep it up.