Harold Washington College in the Loop has a public computer center.
The City Colleges of Chicago (CCC) is a sub-recipient of the Public Community Centers BTOP funds. CCC maintains campuses across the city, and this project quadruples the capacity for City Colleges to provide computer and Internet access for members of the surrounding community.
$2,226,040 in BTOP PCC funds are appropriated to this project, and the City Colleges of Chicago will spend $982,090 in matching funds. The main objectives of the project are as follows:
- Expand 8 existing computer centers
- Upgrade 296 workstations
- Add 1,332 new workstations
- Serve 748,768 users per week
- Change broadband speed by an average of 24MBps across all locations
The Public Computer Center locations are as follows:
- Harold Washington College, 30 W. Lake: upgraded 160 publicly accessible computers throughout the facility, including seven walk-up stations in the lobby, fourteen computers in the 2nd floor lounge, a computer lab with 135 stations with printing, and computers near the elevators on floors 4, 7, and 10
- Harry S. Truman College: a lab with 40 computers and a print station will open in the Spring/ Summer of 2012 in the northwest corner of the first floor
- Kennedy-King College, 6301 S. Halsted: 18 new computers were placed in the first floor library in the Fall of 2011. Planned for Summer 2012: , and 30 new computers at the V and W buildings of the main campus
- Dawson Technical Institute, 3901 South State: 35 new computers are planned at this Kennedy-King College satellite location
- Malcolm X College, 1900 W. Van Buren: 49 new computers and 21 upgraded PCs are planned for this location. Opening: Summer 2012
- Westside Learning Center, 4624 W. Madison: two rooms with a total capacity of 60 upgraded PCs. Currently scoping the work for this Malcolm X College satellite
- Olive Harvey College, 10001 S. Woodlawn: planning 98 new PCs in the third floor computer lab. This work is 60% complete as of March 2012
- South Chicago Learning Center, 3055 E. 92nd: 30 new PCs are planned for this Olive Harvey College satellite
- Richard J. Daley College, 7500 S. Pulaski: 45 upgraded computers (5 of which are ADA compliant) have been placed in the second floor library
- Arturo Velasquez Institute, 2800 S. Western: 22 new computers and 8 upgraded computers have been placed in the 2nd floor library of this Richard J. Daley College satellite location. 20 upgraded computers have been placed in the Open Lab 1212
- Wilbur Wright College, 4300 N. Narragansett: many computers are planned at this location
- Humboldt Park Vocational Education Center: 15 new PCs are planned for this Wilbur Wright College satellite location
Here are some of the 40 new computers planned for the first floor of the Public Computer Center at Truman College.
