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A group of Peoria-area business and community leaders recently held a panel discussion about how the government funding can best be used to foster digital equity and expand broadband access across Peoria and Tazewell Counties.

Preliminary findings from a survey and feasibility study on broadband access in Peoria County confirm a substantial need in rural and economically depressed areas. The goal of the study commissioned by Peoria County and the Greater Peoria Economic Development Council is to identify the service needs and develop a plan for seeking government funding to address those needs.

The COVID-19 pandemic forced millions of Americans to switch to online work environments and virtual learning, and many learned quickly that sharing internet access with multiple devices was a challenge.Seeing that this problem will not go away anytime soon without action, Peoria and Woodford Counties are joining the Accelerate Illinois Broadband Infrastructure Planning Program to improve broadband.

A proposed bill would give more than 90,000 students across 100 districts in rural Illinois access to high-speed internet. Democratic Sen. Andy Manar of…

Illinois lawmakers are warning the state is at risk of losing millions of dollars meant to bring fast internet to remote schools.The federal government…

Thirty-nine percent of people in rural parts of Illinois have no access to high-speed Internet service. That's compared with 1% of the state's urban…

Governor Pat Quinn is hailing the completion of a regional broadband network anchored at Illinois State University as a major technological and economic…