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U of I To Announce New Innovation Center In Chicago With U Of Chicago, Northwestern
The University of Illinois plans a Chicago news conference Thursday to announce plans for a new public-private innovation center near downtown Chicago that would partner the Urbana-Champaign campus with two other research institutions.