SOUTH CHICAGO — A group of activists and neighbors are speaking out against plans for a massive quantum computing development on the South Side, calling for the hundreds of millions in public financing slated for that development to instead be spent on resources for existing residents.

Development firm Related Midwest is leading a project to build a 128-acre campus for quantum computing research as part of the larger Quantum Shore Chicago development on the former U.S. Steel South Works site.

Private companies including PsiQuantum, IBM and Infleqtion — as well as the federal Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and numerous Illinois universities — have announced their involvement in the project, where they’ll test whether quantum computing is more than “hype” and race to develop the

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