Chicago To Consider City-Wide Wireless Network

Mitchell writes "Chicago Indymedia reports on developments pertaining to community internet in Chicago. A press release from the Center for Neighborhood Technology reports that the city's Finance Committee has commissioned a study to explore the possibility of low-cost wireless internet across the city of Chicago, and reserve Chicago's right to establish a citywide Wi-Fi network. It could run into efforts underway now in the state capital by Big Telecom to shut out muni Internet in Illinois." Several readers also pointed to the Chicago Tribune's story on this possibility, including efforts to head off regulation which would make municipal Wi-Fi difficult.

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Fuck Chicago

[Anonymous Coward]

And all you Bears loving, deep-dish pizza eating, fat-asses.

Stalin's Corpse Is In My Refrigerator

[King Fuckstain]

The Internet is not a utility. The Internet is a luxury. Therefore, the government should not provide it. What you're proposing is just another step in the movement towards socialism. It's really a shame that no one understands history anymore.

Oh well. God Bless!