Comcast Greater Chicago Region

Serving Central & Northern Illinois, Northwest Indiana & Southwest Michigan

1871 Announces Comcast will be Named “Corporate Champion” by Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center at 2016 Momentum Awards Dinner

Comcast will be recognized for enormous community impact and efforts that have taken place throughout Chicagoland; Comcast is one of the original partners of 1871… The Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center and 1871 today announced that Comcast will be named the 2016 Corporate Champion at the 9th annual Momentum Awards Dinner, which will take place on October […]

Comcast and Chicago Housing Authority Collaborate to Close the Digital Divide for up to 91,000 HUD-Assisted Chicago Households in Major Internet Essentials Program Expansion

Internet Essentials to Reach More Than 40 Percent of All HUD-Assisted Households Nationwide… Comcast and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) ConnectHome initiative took an historic step to close the digital divide in America.  Now, public housing and HUD-assisted residents living in Comcast’s service area can participate in Internet Essentials, the company’s […]

Comcast Launches “Internet Essentials Learning Zone” Spanning Chicago’s Englewood, Fuller Park and Washington Park Neighborhoods

HOPE Technology and Education Center, Fuller Park Community Development Corporation, KLEO Community Family Life Center join Comcast to help close the digital divide… Leaders from local community-based organizations and elected officials joined Comcast today to announce the creation of an “Internet Essentials Learning Zone” spanning Chicago’s Englewood, Fuller Park and Washington Park neighborhoods.  The goal […]

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 […]