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| Addison Consolidated Fire Dispatch - North | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
| Addison Consolidated Fire Dispatch - South | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
| Algonquin/Lake in the Hills Fire | Public Safety
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3 | Online | |||
| Alsip Fire | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
| Alsip, Oak Lawn, Evergreen Pk, and Hometown Police - Net 6 | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
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Amtrak Police - CUS Amtrak Communications at Chicago Union Station. |
Rail
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0 | Online | |||
| Beach Park Fire | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
| Beecher Fire | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
| Bensenville Fire Protection District | Public Safety
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2 | Online | |||
| Bensenville, Itasca and Wood Dale Police | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
| Berkeley Fire | Public Safety
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1 | Online | |||
| Berwyn Police Dispatch | Public Safety
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3 | Online | |||
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BNSF and EX-EJ&E Naperville Area (((Stereo Feed))) Left = BNSF Chicago, Mendota, and Aurora Subs, Eola Yard switchers, Amtrak Home channel; *** Right = CN's ex-EJ&E Leithton Sub and UP's Geneva Sub. |
Rail
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1 | Online | |||
 Bridgeview, Burbank, Hickory Hills and Summit - Net 10Burbank,Bedford Park,Bridgeview,Justice,Hickory Hills,Hodgkins,Willow Springs,Summit |
Public Safety
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7 | Online | |||
| Broadview Fire | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
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Brookfield Fire Dispatch 154.250 CSQ Simplex Testing audio levels. Other channels are temporarly being used to help adjust since not much FD traffic. They will be removed after testing is completed. |
Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
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Buffalo Grove Fire Dispatch NWCD FD2 radio traffic. Covers Buffalo Grove, Arlington Heights, and Mount Prospect. |
Public Safety
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2 | Online | |||
| Calumet Park Fire | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
| Canadian and Union Pacific - Northwest Chicago | Rail
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0 | Online | |||
| Canadian National Railroad | Rail
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0 | Online | |||
| Carpentersville Police, Fire and EMS, Kane County Police Dispatch | Public Safety
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2 | Online | |||
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Chesterton and Porter Town Police / Fire, County Fire / EMS This feed includes: Chesterton, Indiana Police (154.100 MHz) Porter, Indiana Police (also 154.100 MHz) and Porter County Fire/EMS Dispatch (154.310 MHz). |
Public Safety
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1 | Online | |||
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Chicago Center (ZAU) - Sector 74 FARMM Chicago Air Route Traffic Control Center (ZAU Sector 74) (radio communications: "Chicago Center") is one of 22 Air Route Traffic Control Centers (ARTCCs) operated by the United States Federal Aviation Administration. Antenna 5ele Yagi at 310° NW |
Aviation
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0 | Online | |||
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Chicago Fire - Digital Chicago Fire Department (P25 Digital UHF ) - MAIN/north & ENGLEWOOD/south, Fire Alarm Offices, including CITYWIDE Fire. (WPSG 985) |
Public Safety
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60 | Online | |||
| Chicago Police | Public Safety
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681 | Online | |||
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Chicago Police - Citywide 1, 5, and 6 Listen to this stream during special events, protests, or for high-priority calls being dispatched. Citywide 1 is for traffic, Marine Unit, mass transit, etc. Citywide 5 and 6 are alternate channels. |
Public Safety
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5 | Online | |||
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Chicago Police Zone 1 - Districts 16 and 17 Status: If there are any issues with the feed, please contact me at momentarylapseofreason@gmail.com. This will be the fastest way to get in touch so I can fix it. |
Public Safety
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14 | Online | |||
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Chicago Police Zone 10 - Districts 10 and 11 10th District - Ogden: Serving North Lawndale, South Lawndale, and the Lower West Side; 11th District - Harrison: Serving West Garfield Park, East Garfield Park, and the southern half of Humboldt Park. |
Public Safety
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27 | Online | |||
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Chicago Police Zone 11 - Districts 20 and 24 Rogers Park and Edgewater neighborhoods of Chicago |
Public Safety
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7 | Online | |||
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Chicago Police Zone 12 - Districts 15 and 25 For more info on the C.P.D. and or Zone 12, go to, http://www.chicagofd.org/33cpdzone12radio.html |
Public Safety
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14 | Online | |||
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Chicago Police Zone 13 - District 9 9th District - Deering: Serving Bridgeport, McKinley Park, Brighton Park, New City, and Gage Park. |
Public Safety
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6 | Online | |||
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Chicago Police Zone 2 - District 19 19th District - Town Hall. Wrigley Field. Serving the area from Fullerton to Lawrence and Lake Michigan to the Chicago River. Lake View, north Lincoln Park, North Center, most of Uptown. |
Public Safety
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2 | Online | |||
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Chicago Police Zone 3 Dispatch - Districts 12 and 14 Near West Side, Wicker Park, Ukranian Village, West Town, Logan Square, Bucktown, UIC areas. |
Public Safety
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7 | Online | |||
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Chicago Police Zone 4 - Districts 1 and 18 Zone 4 is the downtown Chicago and Mag Mile scanner feed. District 1 - Central: Serving the Loop, Near South Side, and the northern part of Douglas. District 18 - Near North: Serving the Near North Side and most of Lincoln Park. |
Public Safety
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6 | Online | |||
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Chicago Police Zone 5 - District 2 2nd District - Wentworth: Serving Douglas, Oakland, Grand Boulevard, Kenwood, Washington Park, and Hyde Park. |
Public Safety
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2 | Online | |||
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Chicago Police Zone 8 - Districts 4 and 6 4th District - South Chicago & 6th District - Gresham. |
Public Safety
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9 | Online | |||
| Chicago Ridge Fire | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
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Chicago Suburban Fire Departments, MABAS and IFERN Including M.A.B.A.S. RED Center MABAS Division 3 & 4 and Firegrounds. Northern and Western Cook County Fire, Lake Co. Fire. Starcom Statewide Talk Groups MABAS, IEMA, ITTF, IESMA & ILEAS |
Public Safety
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5 | Online | |||
| Cicero Police | Public Safety
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1 | Online | |||
| Cook County Area Rail | Rail
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0 | Online | |||
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Cook County ECom Fire Dispatch This feed covers ECOM frequency 151.430 which cover's dispatches for East Hazel Crest, Thornton, Hazel Crest, Homewood, Riverdale, South Holland, Flossmoor, & Glenwood Fire Departments. |
Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
| Cook County Fire Dispatch | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
| Cook County MABAS Division 24 Fire and EMS | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
| Countryside Fire Protection District | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
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CP, CN, and UP Rail Near Rondout Broadcast of 19 rail channels from Rondout, IL. CP, UP, METRA, CN (Wisc Central and EJ&E), and WSOR. Status: (((Stereo Feed))) LEFT Speaker: Scans CP C&M + METRA channels. RIGHT Speaker: scans 19 CP, CN & UP channels, now with Alpha Tags! |
Rail
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0 | Online | |||
| Crystal Lake Fire Rescue | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
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Crystal Lake Police and Fire Scanning and broadcasting Crystal Lake, IL Police and Fire 24/7 |
Public Safety
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8 | Online | |||
| Dalton Fire | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
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Deerfield, Northbrook and Glenview Police Includes: Deerfield & Highland Park Police Dispatch (frequency includes links to some adjacent PDs); Northbrook PD; Glenview PD; 155.85 Dfld PD. Feed periodically includes Dfld-Bannockburn Fire 159.66 (RED East Dispatch). Status: Glenview PD may have moved to a trunked system :( |
Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
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Downers Grove and Westmont Police/Fire, IFERN, Fireground Red This feed monitors Downers Grove & Westmont Police/Fire, IFERN and Fireground Red. More info under feed notes. |
Public Safety
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1 | Online | |||
| Ducomm Fire - East | Public Safety
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2 | Online | |||
| DuComm Fire - North | Public Safety
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1 | Online | |||
| DuComm Fire - South | Public Safety
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1 | Online | |||
| DuComm Fire - West | Public Safety
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2 | Online | |||
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DuComm Police 1 East - Lombard, and Villa Park Monitoring Lombard and Villa Park Police Departments on DUCOMM Channel 1 East. |
Public Safety
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2 | Online | |||
| DuPage Area 50.4000 and 144.1440 MHz Simplex | Amateur Radio
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0 | Online | |||
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DuPage County Fire and EMS Feed covers the DuComm and ACDC Fire Dispatch channels, the DuComm UHF IFERN patch, and the MABAS fire ground channels from Lombard, IL. |
Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
| Dupage Fireground Blue | Public Safety
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1 | Online | |||
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Eastern Will County Fire and EMS The feeds monitors EastComm Fire Dispatch, IFERN, and MABAS F/G Red from Peotone, IL Status: Computer is being worked on. Hoping I can get it back in service by next week. I'll keep posting updates here! Thank you for your patience. |
Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
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Elgin Fire Dispatch Status: Elgin has gone to the Starcom Trunking System! NO MORE POLICE TRAFFIC---NOW ENCRYPTED---FIRE DISPATCH ONLY! |
Public Safety
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3 | Online | |||
| Evanston Fire and EMS Dispatch | Public Safety
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1 | Online | |||
| Evergreen Park Fire | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
| Fox River and Countryside Fire Rescue | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
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Gary Fire This is a 700 MHz feed with the East talk group, also Operations 1-13 talk group, Training 1-5 talk group, Garyfire, Gary Ops talk group. it is feed with a APX4500 |
Public Safety
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6 | Online | |||
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Geneva, St. Charles, Batavia, and Elburn Police / Fire ***Tri-Com Feed*** Also broadcasting Sugar Grove Police and Kane County OEM channels. |
Public Safety
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6 | Online | |||
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Grundy and Will Counties Public Safety Monitors police, fire, ems on the Will/ Grundy simulcast starcom site for multiple agencies in Grundy and Will Counties |
Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
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Gurnee and Newport Township Fire Departments Live Audio feed of the Gurnee Fire Department and the Newport Township Fire Department. |
Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
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Gurnee Police and Fire Receiving communications between both primary broadcast towers. Each tower is less than 1/8 of a mile from receiver. Status: Internet outage will be back shortly. |
Public Safety
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0 | Offline | |||
| Hammond Police and Fire Dispatch | Public Safety
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1 | Online | |||
| Harvard Fire Protection District | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
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Hebron Area NOAA Weather Station WNG689 Local Weather Radio Station WNG689 162.450 MHz. |
Other
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0 | Online | |||
| Hillside Fire | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
| Huntley Fire | Public Safety
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3 | Online | |||
| Huntley Fire - Digital | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
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Huntley Fire and Northern IL MABAS (Mutual Aid Box Alarm System) |
Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
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IDOT Minutemen Illinois Department of Transportation Minutemen patrol roads for accidents/debris/breakdowns. |
Public Safety
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5 | Online | |||
| Illinois Mutual Aid Fire Dispatch - MABAS 24 | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
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Illinois State Police Districts 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 15, 17 This feed monitor's ISP Districts 1,2,5,6,8,15,17,21 |
Public Safety
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6 | Online | |||
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Indiana Lake Area Marine Lake Michigan Fishing Channels |
Marine
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0 | Online | |||
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K9ONA SMCC Repeater System K9ONA 146.9700 Mhz, 224.8200 Mhz and 443.3000 Mhz Repeaters. |
Amateur Radio
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0 | Online | |||
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Kane County Sheriff Dispatch and OEM This feed streams KaneComm's Sheriff Frequency (159.1500) which covers most municipal police departments in the county of Kane. This feed also streams the Kane County Office of Emergency Management. |
Public Safety
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3 | Online | |||
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Kendall County Law Enforcement and EMS |
Public Safety
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3 | Online | |||
| Kenosha City Police and Fire | Public Safety
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30 | Online | |||
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Kenosha County Sheriff, Silver and Twin Lakes Police Kenosha County Racine County Sheriff Ch 1 & Wi State Patrol SE Region only. Status: Racine County multiple car accident entrapment |
Public Safety
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4 | Online | |||
| Kenosha Fire | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
| Knollwood Fire | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
| La Grange Fire | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
| La Grange Park Fire | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
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Lake and McHenry County Fire Departments Covers all fire departments in Lake County along with most fire departments in McHenry County (depending on how the reception is) along with RED Center North dispatch. You will also hear police ISPERN alerts and MABAS dispatches on this feed. |
Public Safety
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5 | Online | |||
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Lake County Fire Dispatch - South This feed monitors the South Fire Desk for Lake County, IN. LCEC dispatches for 20 Fire & EMS Departments and handles nearly 100,000 fire & ems incidents every year. |
Public Safety
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3 | Online | |||
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Lake County Law Enforcement Dispatch This is a feed broadcasting off of a Uniden BCD996P2. If anyone has any comments, concerns, questions, sugggestions, I'd be happy to hear them. Email me at lakecountyscanner219@gmail.com Status: As of 01/16/2018 Schererville and Cedar Lake are now included in this scanner feed! |
Public Safety
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12 | Online | |||
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Lake County Quad 1 Fire Departments Monitors Beach Park, North Chicago, Winthrop Harbor, Zion Fire Departments. |
Public Safety
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2 | Online | |||
| Lake Forest Fire | Public Safety
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0 | Offline | |||
| Lake Forest Police, Fire and EMS | Public Safety
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1 | Online | |||
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Lake in the Hills Police Lake in the Hills Police STARCOM21 talkgroup. |
Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
| Lansing Fire | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
| Lincolnway Fire Dispatch - West | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
| Long Grove Fire | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
| MABAS 5 | Public Safety
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1 | Online | |||
| Mabas Division 20 Fire | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
| Marengo Fire | Public Safety
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1 | Online | |||
| McHenry City Police, Fire and EMS Dispatch | Public Safety
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8 | Online | |||
| McHenry County Emergency Management | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
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McHenry County Sheriff Includes Algonquin, Lake In The Hills, Huntley and Crystal Lake Public Safety |
Public Safety
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2 | Online | |||
| McHenry Township Fire | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
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Michigan City Area NOAA Weather Radio KJY62 Weather Radio Local broadcast KJY 62 162.5500 MHz in Laporte, Indiana. |
Other
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1 | Online | |||
| Midlothian Fire | Public Safety
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1 | Online | |||
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Milwaukee Area NOAA Weather Radio KEC60 Southeastern Wisconsin NOAA weather radio KEC60/162.400MHz. This frequency serves Dodge,Washington, Ozaukee, MIlwaukee, Waukesha, Racine and Kenosha counties. |
Other
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0 | Online | |||
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N9IAA 146.6850 MHz Indiana District 1 Skywarn Full-time feed of the N9IAA - 146.685 - Repeater. The repeater is affiliated with Indiana District 1 Skywarn. During severe weather conditions, an emergency net is generally active. Please browse www.indianadistrict1skywarn.org for more information. |
Amateur Radio
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0 | Online | |||
| NORCOM Police Dispatch | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
| North Palos Fire Dispatch | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
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North Quad Fire and EMS Fire North Quad Departments; Richmond Fire, Spring Grove Fire, Wonder Lake Fire, Hebron Fire. |
Public Safety
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2 | Online | |||
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North Suburban Police and Fire Departments, MABAS Divisions 3 / 4 Police for Deerfield, Highland Park, Lake Forest, Lake Bluff, and Riverwoods. Fire for previously mentioned and Red Center to include Northfield, Winnetka, Wilmette. Also Vernon Hills, Countryside FPD, and Mundelein. Northshore Police depts have gone |
Public Safety
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2 | Online | |||
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Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin MABAS MABAS frequency called IFERN - Interagency Fire Emergency Radio Network. Broadcasts for Mutual Aid Box Alarm System (MABAS) activations for large scale Fire/EMS/Rescue incidents across N. Illinois and S.Wisconsin. 100' antenna near IL/WI border. |
Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
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Northern Illinois Railroads (Stereo Feed) * Left = CP / CN * * Right = UP / BNSF * |
Rail
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6 | Online | |||
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Northwest Central Fire Dispatch Includes NWCD Elk Grove Village, Palatine, Palatine Rural, Arlington Heights, Buffalo Grove, Mount Prospect, Rolling Meadows, & Schaumburg. Also covers RED Center Des Plaines, Park Ridge, Rosemont, Wheeling, & Prospect Heights. Also covers DUCOM Roselle, Status: Northwest Central Dispatch is no longer scannable as they are using encryption and Motorola Type II. |
Public Safety
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0 | Offline | |||
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Northwest Central Fire Dispatch 1 FD 1: Elk Grove Village, Palatine, Palatine Rural, and Rolling Meadows. FD 2: Arlington Heights, Buffalo Grove, Mount Prospect FD 3: Hoffman Estates, Schaumburg, Streamwood |
Public Safety
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2 | Online | |||
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Northwest Indiana NS, CSX, and CN Rail (((Stereo feed))) from Whiting, IN. "Rails in Da Region." Shows Alpha Tags for the right channel. |
Rail
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0 | Online | |||
| Norwood Park Fire | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
| Oak Forest Fire | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
| Oak Lawn Fire | Public Safety
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1 | Online | |||
| Oak Park Fire | Public Safety
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1 | Online | |||
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Oak Park, River Forest and Forest Park Police Oak Park, River Forest and Forest Park police are all dispatched by WestCom. 5000s Oak Park; 1100s River Forest; 2000s Forest Park. |
Public Safety
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2 | Online | |||
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Orland Fire Protection District Orland Fire District Right Channel - Main Radio Left Channel - Red Fireground |
Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
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Palos Heights and Orland Park Police, Fire / EMS Covering Palos Heights, Palos Park and Orland Park, IL. |
Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
| Phoenix Fire | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
| Porter County Sheriff, Fire and EMS, Valparaiso Police / Fire | Public Safety
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0 | Offline | |||
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Quad 3 and Lake Zurich Fire Quad 3 Fire, Lake Zurich Fire, Red Fireground and NIFERN |
Public Safety
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3 | Online | |||
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QuadCom Fire Quadcom Fire is Carpentersville FD, East Dundee FPD, West Dundee FD, & Rutland Dundee FPD. Also IFERN for MABAS Division 2 is being broadcast. |
Public Safety
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1 | Online | |||
| QuadCom Police, Fire and EMS | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
| Racine and Kenosha Counties Fire Working Incidents | Public Safety
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0 | Not Active | |||
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RED Center Fire Dispatch Covering RED Center North East, North West, South East, South West and IFERN frequencies. |
Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
| Robbins Fire | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
| Roberts Park Fire | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
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Round Lake Area Police and Fire Dispatch Providing scanner feeds for Lake County, Illinois - Quad 2 Fire Departments, and the Round Lake Area Police Departments. |
Public Safety
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4 | Online | |||
| Sauk Village Fire | Public Safety
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1 | Online | |||
| Schiller Park Fire | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
| South Elgin Fire | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
| Stickney Fire | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
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Streamwood Fire Dispatch Streamwood / Hoffman Estates / Schaumburg, Fire Dispatch. |
Public Safety
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3 | Online | |||
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Streamwood Fireground Red Fireground Red. |
Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
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Tinley Park, Orland Park and Lincolnway Police, Fire / EMS Feed covers towns of Tinley Park, Orland Park, Mokena, Frankfort, New Lenox, Manhattan, and the Illinois State Police Emergency Radio Network (ISPERN). 10/6/18 - Updated Lincolnway PD's to the new Will County P25 System. |
Public Safety
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14 | Online | |||
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Tricom Fire Dispatch Geneva, St Charles, Batavia, Elburn, Sugar Grove and North Aurora. |
Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
| Union Fire Protection District | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
| W9DUP DuPage ARC Repeaters | Amateur Radio
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0 | Online | |||
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WA9WLN 442.3750 MHz Waldofar Skywarn Repeater This feed is a Motorola mobile radio dedicated to monitoring the WALDOFAR 442.375 repeater system located in Homewood, IL. This system is home to the South Suburban Skywarn group. This repeater during severe weather provides Skywarn operations for Cook, w |
Amateur Radio
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0 | Online | |||
| WESCOM Fire - North | Public Safety
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1 | Online | |||
| WESCOM Fire - South | Public Safety
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2 | Online | |||
| Western Springs Fire | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
| Westmont Fire, Tri-State and Pleasantview FPD | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
| Woodstock Fire | Public Safety
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1 | Online | |||
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Zion and North Chicago Police Dispatch Zion: 470.5125 North Chicago: 470.4625 |
Public Safety
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6 | Online |
