The Illinois subgrantee BEAD application and selection process will consist of up to three waves, beginning January 23.
Illinois will use the $23,732,912 of NTIA Capacity Grant funds to create a dashboard to measure progress toward digital equity.
Frontier plans to connect more than 700 homes and businesses to fiber broadband service in rural Illinois, through a Connect Illinois grant.
The biggest winners in this round of Illinois broadband funding were Jo-Carroll Energy Co-op and ProTek Communications.
The Illinois broadband funding comes through the Connect Illinois program, which is accepting applications on a rolling basis.
Matt Schmit, Illinois broadband director, told us about his experiences shaping the widely admired Minnesota Border-to-Border