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Originally Posted by the urban politician
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Chicago has always been a tech town. Lots of early industrial innovation. But Chicago was early in electronics development, especially around radio technology. RF transmitters, radios, cell phones, telcomm.
Motorola, AT&T, then Lucent. Tel Labs, 3-Comm, US Robotics, RIM. Lots of others.
Now lots of these companies (sadly) decamped to the suburbs or were never in the city proper to begin with. But the educated tech base population is here. And thanks to the Metra rail network, all of us who live in the burbs are just as happy to jump on a train for 40 minutes (and check our mail) as we are to drive 40 minutes cross burb.
Chicago is a huge population center and tech jobs in the core have 8 million people to recruit from.