Commitments for Round 1
| ORGANIZATION |
PROJECT TITLE |
PROJECT LOCATION |
FEDERAL REQUEST (Anticipated) |
TOTAL PROJECT COST (Anticipated) |
STATE COMMITMENT |
| Blackhawk Hills Resource Conservation & Development |
Blackhawk Hills Fiber Optic System |
Northwest Illinois |
$66,776,717 |
$72,158,710 |
$5,000,000 |
| University of Illinois CITES (Campus Information Technologies and Information Services) |
Urbana-Champaign Big Broadband |
Urbana-Champaign Area |
$28,000,000 |
$35,000,000 |
$3,500,000 |
| Carl Sandburg College |
EduNet Wireless Wide Area Network Expansion |
West Central Illinois |
$1,688,688 |
$1,876,320 |
$187,632 |
| City of Aurora |
Aurora Broadband for Education, Economic Development, Healthcare and the Digital Divide |
Aurora |
$5,568,000 |
$6,960,000 |
$696,000 |
| City of Rockford |
Greater Rockford Fiber Optic System |
Rockford |
$63,600,357 |
$70,663,730 |
$5,000,000 |
| Clearwave Communications |
Southern Illinois Middle Mile Project |
Southern Illinois |
$50,217,529 |
$62,771,912 |
$5,000,000 |
| DeKalb County Government |
DeKalb Advancement of Technology Authority Broadband Infrastructure Development |
DeKalb County |
$10,440,530 |
$13,050,662 |
$1,305,075 |
| Illinois Rural Electric Cooperative |
West Central Illinois Broadband |
West Central Illinois |
$3,749,200 |
$5,768,000 |
$576,800 |
| KeyOn Communications |
KeyOn WiMAX Illinois |
Central, Eastern, Western Illinois |
$23,600,000 |
$35,800,000 |
$3,000,000 |
| City of Lincoln |
LincolnNet |
Logan County |
$1,540,800 |
$1,710,800 |
$170,000 |
| MuseNet - Adler Planetarium |
MuseNet: Connecting Chicago's Museums to National and Global Communities |
Chicago |
$3,600,000 |
$4,500,000 |
$450,000 |
| Lawndale Business & Local Dev. Corp. |
Lawndale Network Training Centers |
Chicago - Lawndale Community |
$2,000,000 |
$2,200,000 |
$200,000 |
| Lumity |
Community Centers of Excellence Program |
Chicago's Southern Suburbs |
$615,456 |
$769,320 |
$153,864 |
| Telstar Cablevision |
Quad County Rural Broadband Infrastructure Project |
Woodford, Tazewell & Peoria Counties |
$3,025,580 |
$3,781,975 |
$378,198 |
| City of Chicago |
Smart Chicago |
Chicago |
$100,000,000 |
$124,826,712 |
$10,000,000 |
| South Suburban Mayors and Managers Association |
SSMMA Regional Broadband Connectivity Project |
Cook & Will Counties |
$50,618,294 |
$57,118,294 |
$5,000,000 |
| TOTAL |
|
|
$415,041,151 |
$ 498,756,435 |
$ 40,617,569 |
The above state funding commitments are conditioned on the award of federal ARRA grants and loans.
They apply ony to the Round One NTIA/RUS broadband funding opportunity.