The NSF-funded QLCI-HQAN center (Director, Brian DeMarco) hosted the 1st session of lab tours at UIUC on Saturday, October 23, 2021. The goal was to enable informal research conversations and collaboration-building among the three HQAN institutions, the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, the University of Wisconsin, Madison and the University of Chicago. It will help foster collaboration between researchers with a full understanding of the capabilities and operations of different research groups at Illinois.