Faster internet access could soon come to students and families in the Park Forest-Chicago Heights School District 163 after $300,000 was...

Currently, CSFN serves a variety of customers including Cook County courthouses, south suburban regional hospitals and clinics, municipal...

The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) Office of Broadband announced the new Illinois Connected Communities...

Comcast is expanding its Internet Essential programs for low-income residents to anyone who lives in U.S. Department of Housing and Urban...

The agreement allows the County Bureau of Technology to leverage NIU expertise to explore network asset monetization under the county’s...

A multiyear project intended to boost high-speed Internet access across Cook County is expected to wrap up next year. Officials recently...

CSFN Chairman of the Board and Park Forest Village Manager Tom Mick welcomes workshop participants at South Suburban College. The Chicago...

From the Chicago Southland Fiber Network and Urbancom.net; please share with municipal economic development, information technology and...

Intended to offer high-speed Internet access to municipal governments, schools and businesses in the south suburbs, the fiber optic...

Urban Communications CEO Edmund Urban (left) with Dr. Don C. Williams at the Chicago Southland Fiber Network June 4th grand opening...

Mr. Williams is a senior specialist for broadband development for President Barack Obama’s new  BroadbandUSA initiative. Prior to NTIA,...

Photo credit: Larry Burrows From Broadband Communities Magazine: Ed Zabrocki, Mayor, Tinley Park: The Chicago Southland area...

Photo credit: Larry Burrows About 500 participants from the United States, Canada, and as far as the United Kingdom, U.S. Virgin Islands,...

Now, just a year later, much of that construction is complete. And, after hearing about our work to bring fiber to the Southland,...

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Broadband Communities Magazine will be holding a regional Community Fiber Networks/ Broadband = Economic Development conference at the...

Stretching southward from Chicago for some 40 miles through Cook and Will counties is a collection of cities and villages known as the...

Chicago’s 176-mile fiber network connects police stations with 22,000 cameras used daily to support police missions and 911 operators....

Why developers are bringing gigabit speeds to residential buildings Matt Womack loved the Lake Michigan views, granite counters and...

The grant is to create promotional mailers, advertisements and a video to help promote the Community Fiber Network Conference, on Nov....