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Spring 2025 Scouting at Proposed Location for the Quantum Campus

Posted on 2025/06/19 - 2025/06/19 by unsalted
A satellite view of the site with many locations marked and captions pointing out various things like fences, buildings, and empty fields.

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Comrades visited Steelworkers Park and walked through the surrounding land to scout the area where the Quantum campus is scheduled to be constructed. This report back is based on two scouts. Go and see for yourself.

Steelworkers Park is a public city park: folks are on walks with their dogs, fishing, climbing, and birdwatching. There’s free parking, DIVY bikes, and community work days. A cop car was present in the cul-de-sac of the entrance/parking/exit, like at many public parks. Rainbow Beach is further north, another public park with several parking lots. It would be a manageable distance to bike from.

There are traffic cameras at the 87th and LSD intersection and some above the parking area for the park. No other cameras were spotted throughout the land at the time of writing [mid April 2025].

The land specifically designated for the first phase of the construction of the Quantum base is directly south of the Steelworkers Park entrance. It butts up against the west side of the park and continues south towards US Army Corps of Engineers signs (looks like piles of rocks mostly tbh). This land is surrounded with a 5.5 ft fence. There are gates at several points which are locked, but there are a number of places where the fence has been damaged (notably on the north side there’s a giant rock that opens the space). It is also climbable. “No Trespassing” signs are nearly entirely absent. One was seen along with a US Army Corps of Engineers sign at the very westernmost fence near a gated entrance along LSD.

This lot varies in appearance; some areas have waist-height grass, some areas have denser trees, some of it is almost cleared. There are construction cones and little marking flags throughout, but it is not clear whether these are new or leftover from the past. There’s a bunch of trash, including two human-abandoned, bee-busy beehives. There are multiple “well testing” spots throughout. There are a number of gravel / dirt roads at various locations as well. There was a truck with a drill parked on one of these dirt roads. No workers were seen; unclear if the truck is there long term or what.

There’s a smaller fenced in area with a taller fence (~10ft) with barbed wire. The gate however is wide open. There’s a caterpillar sitting near this area, also unclear how long it’s been sitting.

It does not look like construction has started nor that there is elevated surveillance at this time. Keep watch, take risks. Fight against Quantum. Fight for the lake, the beavers, South Shore, for privacy and autonomy, for ur lovers and friends.

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Posted in General, ReportbackTagged Chicago, Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, infodump, Quantum Computing, Scouting

ANTI QUANTUM DAY Reportback, Opponents of PsiQuantum Facility in Chicago Disrupt Architecture Center Event with PsiQuantum VP 

Posted on 2025/04/22 - 2025/04/22 by unsalted

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We offer to you on “World Quantum Day” this report-back of recent movement building and protest against the specter of Quantum in so-called Chicago.

On the spring equinox, March 20, 2025, opponents of a plan to build the 9 Billion dollar Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park(IQMP) on the shores of southern Lake Michigan or Mishigami, disrupted an event that the Chicago Architecture Center hosted to sell the project to the public.

A dozen people rallied outside of the entrance of the swank downtown offices of the Chicago Architecture Center Thursday, calling simultaneously for the whole project to be stopped entirely, but also to make sure that the people are not forgotten if developers were to go forward with terraforming the lakefront to make room for this massive tech campus, and that there are also plans to ensure that somehow it would benefit the people currently living in the neighborhoods and the local ecosystem, not corporate profit and militarization. Colorful banners and signs held by people had the words, “Invest in People, Not Quantum”, “Quantum = Displacement: The Lake is for the People, Not Your Supercomputer” and “Love Mishigami, Hate Killer Quantum” while others played music and chanted. 

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Posted in General, ReportbackTagged Chicago, Disruption, Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, Quantum Computing

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