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Mayor Ed Zabrocki, Tinley Park Ed Paesel, SSMMA Bruce Montgomery, PCI Ed Paesel, South Suburban Mayors and Managers Association: Any economic development has to be holistic. We began building the Chicago Southland Fiber Network where the new airport will be located, so we will be able to serve it when it opens. Ten we can use this to play of all the other economic development in the area. Institutions of higher education use the network to connect to the K–12 schools and bridge the digital divide. Te joint 911 dispatch centers will be able to monitor public facilities such as parking lots with video cameras. We're working with Northern Illinois University to identify other anchor institutions that can beneft from the network. this purpose. With broadband, we can bring manufacturing back to Illinois, and add technology companies and telehealth. All our communities have brain drain problems. We have great schools, but graduates go where the action is. We have a net outfow of e-commerce. Sears was started here, and so was Montgomery Ward. Amazon should have been here, too! Great ideas came out of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, but then people headed west. Bruce Montgomery, Partnership for a Connected Illinois: Te big universities are scrambling to put business accelerators on their campuses – well, we have land here available for Communities Will Drive AmericaÕs Global Competitiveness Rollie Cole, Sagamore Institute for Policy Research: Much of the economic development challenge for cities is being able to imagine what's possible. In the 1920s, city fathers who contemplated building a road might have wondered why they should accommodate travel faster than 20 miles per hour. Tat's the stage we are at now with broadband. It's wrong to say that wiring homes with fber isn't necessary for economic Rollie Cole, Sagamore Institute Mark Ansboury, Gigabit Squared Lydia Murray, Cook County NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2013 | www.broadbandcommunities.com | BROADBAND COMMUNITIES | 45