Comcast Greater Chicago Region

Serving Central & Northern Illinois, Northwest Indiana & Southwest Michigan

Since it began in 2011, Nearly 35,000 Low-income Chicago Families have Connected to the Internet at Home via Comcast’s Internet Essentials Program

Program provides Internet service at home to eligible low-income families for about $10 per month… Comcast announced today that nearly 35,000 Chicago households – or about 140,000 city residents – have been able to gain access to broadband Internet service at home, many for the first time, through the company’s Internet Essentials program.  Internet Essentials provides […]

Comcast Joins Cook County Commissioner Richard Boykin to Launch “BE HEARD Art and Essay Contest”

Comcast joined Cook County 1st District Commissioner Richard R. Boykin this morning at Chicago’s Christ the King Jesuit College Preparatory School to launch his second annual “BE HEARD Art and Essay Contest,” a civics education, voter registration and get-out-the-vote initiative aimed at grammar and high school students. Third through 8th grade students in Cook County can […]

“Tomorrow Tour” Explores the Role of Entrepreneurship in Chicago

Organized by Tech News Network Technical.ly & Inspired by Comcast NBCUniversal, Multi-City Event Series will Explore & Document How Technology & Innovation Converge to Strengthen Cities… Tomorrow Tour, a multi-city event series that explores the role of entrepreneurship in growing tech cities, kicks off its Chicago leg today at TechNexus, a business incubator and co-working […]

Comcast Business Expands Fiber Optic Network in Chicago’s Peterson Pulaski Industrial Corridor

Expansion increases access to Ethernet, Internet, Voice and Cloud Services, helps accelerate growth of existing area businesses and attract new ones… Comcast announced today that the company has added about two miles of fiber optic network in the Peterson Pulaski Business and Industrial Park on Chicago’s northwest side, spanning from Bryn Mawr Avenue north to […]

Comcast adds WiFi Hot Spots Near Parks, Recreation and Other Public Areas in Fox Valley Communities to Connect Residents and Visitors to the Internet, Content on the Go

Number of Xfinity WiFi hot spots in Kane County, IL, approaching 40,000… Comcast announced today that the company has installed about 30 Xfinity WiFi hot spots adjacent to recreational areas in parks and public spaces in Batavia, East and West Dundee, Elgin and South Elgin, Geneva and St. Charles, IL, including Prairie and Lathem Park […]