Monday, January 28, 2013

The British Are Coming!


At least the The British School appears to be coming to the South Loop. Read more over at our friends at chicago.curbed.com.

Saturday, January 26, 2013

A little late. http://www.iit.edu/news/iittoday/?p=5662


Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) President John L. Anderson announced today that IIT is building a 100,000 square-foot Innovation Center at the university’s south side campus. The state-of-the art building will house workshops and media labs and offer students and faculty a centralized facility with a singular purpose of promoting the basic elements of innovation and transitioning new ideas into products and processes.
“The new Innovation Center promises to be an investment in both the education offered at IIT and the future of Chicago,” said Mayor Emanuel. “It will help unlock the potential of thousands of students while providing Chicago businesses with a pipeline of new products, processes and talented graduates to hire.”
The proposed five-story building overlooking the Dan Ryan Expressway will house IIT’s Idea Shop, Leadership Academy, Entrepreneurship Academy and Institute of Design, but it will be more than an academic building and serve to attract creative thinkers to Chicago.