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Skokie and the North Shore
Skokie's own fibre network, the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, the village library's community-network history, the Village Board's broadband decisions as public documents, and the North Shore's uneven service geography.
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Skokie Owns the Fibre Under Its Own Streets
Documents the Village of Skokie's municipal fibre network — the infrastructure it operates, the Village Board decisions that authorised it as public records, and how it sits relative to private carriers serving the same geography. Sources: Village Board meeting minutes and published village infrastructure documents.
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The Illinois Holocaust Museum Opened in Skokie in 2009
Records the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center as an institution — its 2009 opening, its collection, its education programme and its civic relationship to the village.
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The Library Was Doing This Before 'Broadband' Was the Word for It
Traces the Skokie Public Library's early community-network work — public terminal access, digital literacy programming and its role as a public internet access point — situating it in the longer history of libraries as connectivity infrastructure before home broadband was widespread.
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Service in One Suburb Is Not Service in the Next
Examines the uneven broadband service landscape across Chicago's North Shore suburbs — Evanston, Skokie, Morton Grove, Niles — using FCC map data and village-level published documents to show how carrier service territory boundaries leave gaps between adjacent municipalities.
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The Village Board Left a Paper Trail
A walk through the publicly available Village of Skokie documents relevant to broadband decisions — meeting minutes, adopted resolutions and published feasibility work — with notes on what each record shows and where it sits in the village's public document archive.