A Chicago-led IBM and University of Chicago experiment claims a quantum advantage milestone with 70 logical qubits and built-in error verification.

Northwestern has landed $20 million to build the nation’s first publicly accessible AI-powered protein engineering cloud lab. The Evanston facility could let researchers run sophisticated experiments remotely.

Northwestern Medicine and other studies find women with long COVID report higher rates of brain fog, fatigue and other neurologic complaints and slower recovery than men.

An Illinois-led coalition won a $30M federal award to expand lab space, prototyping and workforce programs tied to the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park.

A rare inside look shows a Chicago forensic lab using AI to spot deepfakes and new chemical methods to recover fingerprints. The work is being used to help investigators link organized‑crime cases.

Illinois Tech won a UGC Letter of Approval to open a Mumbai campus and will enroll students for fall 2026, becoming the first U.S. university to offer U.S. degrees in India.

UChicago Medicine has added four senior neurosurgeons as part of an expansion led by Chair Mohamad Bydon. The hires bolster tumor, spine, vascular and trauma care.

Northwestern surgeons replaced a woman’s lungs, liver and kidney in a rare staged operation that used perfusion technology to protect the donor organs.

UChicago Law will bar phones and laptops in first‑year classrooms under a new AI strategy that emphasizes core legal reasoning and supervised AI training. Professors may name scribes and permit limited tech in specific activities.

Illinois launched a $3M X‑Labs Fast Fund to entice NSF quantum teams to build in Chicago, pairing state cash with partner lab access at the new IQMP campus.

A researcher says Anthropic's Claude helped expose an SQL injection in Front Gate Tickets that could issue unlimited VIP passes; Front Gate says it patched the bug and found no sign of fraud.

Rush CEO Omar Lateef will step down to pursue a national health equity agenda, Crain's reports. His departure leaves a key leadership moment for the Chicago system.

Northwestern's Project DRIVE provided software Apple used to let Vision Pro wearers steer powered wheelchairs with their eyes. The feature rolls out initially with limited drive‑system support.