Good morning. Hope you stayed dry this damp Chicagoland weekend. 

Chicago's business leaders have been demonized constantly by Mayor Brandon Johnson. But they're pragmatists and they know that everyone wins when the city prioritizes growth. Sunday, the editorial board took a deep dive into the latest report from the city's Civic Committee and we had something to say about that lack of cooperation from City Hall. 

(Our cartoonist Scott Stantis channelled "Jaws" to make his point).

Today, the board looks in detail at what is going on at The Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park (IQMP), in development on 128 acres of the former U.S. Steel South Works site on Chicago’s South Side. We've been troubled by the amount of confusion out there that conflates quantum with data centers and artificial intelligence. So we tried to explain the difference. 

We also noticed a billboard by the freeway in the northwest suburbs, telling Illinoisans that they can take advantage of the federal education freedom tax credit if they send their money to Indiana. Didn't know you could do that? We explain the how and the why.

Our Opinion section took a trip to Page One in Sunday's print edition as architecture columnist Edward Keegan gave his aesthetic verdict on the new Ryan Field at Northwestern University.

Other must-reads in my view: State Sen. Willie Preston, carrying water for video gambling in Chicago; Dan Tully on why the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) is a problematic law and Sally Pipes on the profound promise of the new mRNA flu vaccine.

Meanwhile, our readers are passionately debating the pros and cons of Illinois' right-to-die law.

Have a great week.

— Chris Jones, editorial page editor

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