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Illinois Science + Technology Park
A high-tech village flourishes within Skokie
By Manuel Baigorri, Medill Reports Chicago
When Forest City Enterprises Inc., a publicly traded real estate company based in Cleveland, acquired the research and development labs of Pfizer Inc., formerly G.D. Searle & Co., in March 2005, it embarked on one of the most ambitious projects currently underway in the biosciences industry in the Midwest. The idea was to create a high tech park inside the village of Skokie and to bring companies to those facilities.
Three years later, some of the nearly 2,000 jobs lost when Pfizer pulled out of Skokie have already been recovered and, more importantly, plans are underway for a greater expansion in the future....