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People work Oct. 18, 2016, at mHub, a shared work space in Chicago. (Anthony Souffle/baiduhai)

Tom Kuczmarski and Luke Tanen: Chicago has reinvented itself from a Rust Belt city to an innovation center

September 16, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Chicago has quietly transformed itself into one of the nation's most dynamic and diverse innovation ecosystems.

Margaret Keenan, 90, the first patient in the United Kingdom to receive the Pfizer/BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine, speaks with health care assistant Lorraine Hill in Coventry, England, on Dec. 9, 2020, the day after receiving the first of two doses of the vaccine.

Op-ed: Chicago innovators are poised for success post-pandemic

December 18, 2020 at 3:27 p.m.

When a 90-year-old British woman received the first injection of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, you could almost feel the shift in the war against COVID-19. The vaccine is a huge innovation...

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