They Said a 3D Printer Would Bring Housing to This Town. It Was Yet Another Broken Promise.

I spotted the printer abandoned off a country road. Finding out how it got there is a whole other story of tangled politics, ...

3D printed homes, an abandoned $590,000 deposit, the FBI: What really happened in this small town?

Two men promised a $1.1 million 3D printer could fix Cairo, Illinois’, housing crisis. More than a year later, the one duplex it printed still isn’t finished. And the more we asked questions, the ...

FBI Investigates 3D-Housing Project in Struggling Illinois Town as Questions Mount Over Failed Deal

The effort has stalled, leaving an unfinished structure, financial disputes, and an FBI investigation into the company behind ...
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A $1.1 million 3D printer, a weeping mayor, and the FBI: Cairo’s ceremony economy

Cairo, Illinois was promised 30 duplexes from a $1.1 million 3D printer. Fourteen months later, the printer is gone and the ...
Quincy Herald-Whig

In Cairo, massive 3D printer provides affordable housing hope

CAIRO, Ill. — A massive 12-ton 3D printer has arrived in Cairo to construct a duplex on vacant land behind the town’s city hall. The towering gantry system stretches into the sky as the machine, ...