BROADBAND IN Illinois

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COVERAGE BY COUNTY

Illinois Interactive SVG Map showing broadband coverage by county.

91%

BROADBAND COVERAGE

12%

POPULATION UNDERSERVED

31.2

MBPS AVERAGE
STATE-WIDE SPEED

17th

MOST
CONNECTED STATE

BROADBAND SPEEDS

91.5%

of Illinoisans have access to wired broadband 25mbps or faster.

90.0%

of Illinoisans have access to broadband 100mbps or faster.

1.2%

of Illinoisans have access to 1 gigabit broadband.

WIRED COVERAGE

97.2%

of Illinoisans have access to wireline service.

2.1%

of Illinoisans have access to fiber-optic service.

90.8%

of Illinoisans have access to cable service.

93.5%

of Illinoisans have access to DSL service.

WIRELESS COVERAGE

100.0%

of Illinoisans have access to mobile broadband service.

91.4%

of Illinoisans have access to fixed wireless service.

Top 5 Fastest Cities In Illinois

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River Forest

72.2 MBPS

72.2">%

Ingleside

71.9 MBPS

71.9">%

Mokena

70.1 MBPS

70.1">%

Highland Park

66.8 MBPS

66.8">%

Hazel Crest

65.8 MBPS

65.8">%

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GOV'T FUNDING

Since 2010, Broadband Illinois has been awarded $6,554,641 in federal grants for Illinois's Broadband Initiative.
Another $173,923,501, accounting for 5.0% of all federal infrastructure grants, was awarded to broadband infrastructure projects in Illinois.
Since 2011, access to a wired connection of at least 10mbps has improved from 93.0% to 95.2% of Illinoisans.

QUICK STATS

In total there are 294 broadband providers in Illinois.
There are 1.1 million people in Illinois without access to a wired connection capable of 25mbps download speeds.
There are 1.2 million people in Illinois that have access to only one wired provider, leaving them no options to switch.
Another 366,000 people in Illinois don't have any wired internet providers available where they live.

Sources: Data collected via the FCC, NTIA, and other sources. For a full list of data sources please visit our data page.

Illinois CITIES


Addison	99.3%	20 providers
Algonquin	99.7%	22 providers
Alton	97.8%	16 providers
Arlington Heights	96.1%	26 providers
Aurora	98.9%	34 providers
Barrington	99.0%	24 providers
Bartlett	98.6%	17 providers
Belleville	98.5%	28 providers
Belvidere	94.9%	15 providers
Berwyn	99.0%	14 providers
Bloomington	96.2%	25 providers
Bolingbrook	99.5%	35 providers
Buffalo Grove	97.8%	24 providers
Calumet City	99.6%	18 providers
Carbondale	81.6%	15 providers
Carol Stream	99.6%	29 providers
Carpentersville	99.6%	20 providers
Champaign	95.7%	24 providers
Chicago	98.4%	56 providers
Chicago Heights	98.8%	13 providers
Cicero	98.6%	16 providers
Collinsville	98.8%	20 providers
Crystal Lake	99.1%	21 providers
Danville	84.5%	18 providers
Decatur	95.8%	24 providers
Dekalb	86.4%	21 providers
Des Plaines	95.0%	36 providers
Downers Grove	98.8%	35 providers
East Saint Louis	89.3%	21 providers
Edwardsville	92.2%	20 providers
Elgin	98.8%	29 providers
Elk Grove Village	99.5%	30 providers
Elmhurst	98.9%	25 providers
Elmwood Park	99.4%	15 providers
Evanston	99.0%	24 providers
Frankfort	99.3%	20 providers
Freeport	91.6%	14 providers
Galesburg	94.8%	18 providers
Glen Ellyn	99.2%	25 providers
Glendale Heights	99.5%	26 providers
Glenview	96.8%	29 providers
Granite City	99.2%	18 providers
Grayslake	97.1%	18 providers
Gurnee	99.6%	27 providers
Hanover Park	100.0%	21 providers
Hoffman Estates	98.4%	30 providers
Joliet	98.4%	31 providers
Kankakee	94.7%	15 providers
La Grange	98.3%	25 providers
Lake Villa	97.9%	18 providers
Lake Zurich	97.7%	22 providers
Lockport	90.3%	20 providers
Lombard	99.1%	27 providers
Mchenry	98.3%	25 providers
Melrose Park	99.2%	26 providers
Moline	99.8%	16 providers
Mount Prospect	97.9%	25 providers
Mundelein	99.2%	24 providers
Naperville	99.2%	41 providers
New Lenox	99.2%	19 providers
Normal	88.3%	19 providers
Northbrook	99.3%	30 providers
O Fallon	99.4%	19 providers
Oak Lawn	98.9%	19 providers
Oak Park	99.7%	21 providers
Orland Park	98.7%	24 providers
Oswego	98.0%	27 providers
Palatine	97.9%	22 providers
Park Ridge	99.0%	18 providers
Pekin	97.5%	19 providers
Peoria	98.4%	34 providers
Plainfield	99.2%	24 providers
Quincy	96.0%	18 providers
Rock Island	99.2%	14 providers
Rockford	96.0%	27 providers
Romeoville	97.5%	30 providers
Round Lake	99.5%	15 providers
Saint Charles	98.6%	27 providers
Schaumburg	95.5%	36 providers
Skokie	99.7%	27 providers
Springfield	96.2%	27 providers
Streamwood	99.9%	18 providers
Tinley Park	99.4%	26 providers
Urbana	91.5%	21 providers
Waukegan	97.9%	21 providers
West Chicago	98.7%	28 providers
Wheaton	99.1%	27 providers
Wheeling	98.4%	28 providers
Woodridge	95.1%	25 providers
Woodstock	90.6%	21 providers
Zion	97.4%	12 providers

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Last Updated on 7/11/2017.