Access to reliable high-speed internet has become an essential part of commercial activity and daily life. The COVID-19 pandemic further revealed the importance of broadband internet, as more families worked, learned, and shopped from home. Since 2019, both the State of Illinois and the federal government passed infrastructure programs that include funding to expand access to broadband internet.
There is a “digital divide” between those with and without access to broadband internet in Illinois.
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