Crain’s Chicago Business (Dec. 23) -- There’s a big competition worth keeping an eye on between the eggnog and Christmas cookies this holiday season – the race to land a $70 million grant to establish a digital manufacturing center in Chicago, a race that’s critical to the future of the still-budding UI Labs and of Chicago’s hopes to spread the extend the prosperity of the Loop’s office towers to people in the neighborhoods who desperately need the kind of well-paying factory jobs that once were Chicago’s economic foundation.