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| Addison Consolidated Fire Dispatch - North | Public Safety
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1 | Online | |||
| Addison Consolidated Fire Dispatch - South | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
 Algonquin-Lake in the Hills Fire Protection DistrictAlgonquin-Lake in the Hills Fire Protection District As of 8/19/2019 Algonquin Cary Police Dispatch has gone to Encrypted dispatch, Unable to monitor going forward. |
Public Safety
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1 | Online | |||
| Algonquin/Lake in the Hills Fire | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
| Alsip Fire | Public Safety
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1 | Online | |||
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Amtrak Police - CUS Amtrak Communications at Chicago Union Station. Status: Audio Restored! |
Rail
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0 | Online | |||
| Arlington Heights, Buffalo Grove and Mount Prospect Dispatch | Public Safety
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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, 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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4 | 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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0 | Online | |||
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Bridgeview, Burbank, Hickory Hills and Summit - Net 10 Burbank,Bedford Park,Bridgeview,Justice,Hickory Hills,Hodgkins,Willow Springs,Summit |
Public Safety
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3 | 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 | |||
| Buffalo Grove Fire | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
| Calumet Park Fire | Public Safety
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0 | 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 Phase 1, Digital UHF ) - MAIN/north & ENGLEWOOD/south, Fire Alarm Offices, including CITYWIDE Fire. (WPSG 985) |
Public Safety
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60 | Online | |||
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Chicago Police Monitoring all Chicago Zones & City-wide 1 & 7. |
Public Safety
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404 | Online | |||
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Chicago Police Zone 1 - Districts 16 and 17 |
Public Safety
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54 | 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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172 | 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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18 | 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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50 | 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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9 | Online | |||
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Chicago Police Zone 3 - Districts 12 and 14 12th District - Near West: Serving Logan Square, Bucktown and Wicker Park; 14th District - Shakespeare: Serving Ukrainian Village, River West, West Town, Near West Side, Lower West Side, Humboldt Park and Illinois Medical District. |
Public Safety
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35 | 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. District 18 - Near North: Serving the Near North Side and most of Lincoln Park. https://crimeisdown.com/audio/live/zone4 |
Public Safety
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65 | 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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47 | 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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3 | Online | |||
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Chicago Transit Authority Rail Ops Monitoring all CTA rail operations. Red, Blue, Pink, Green, Orange, Purple, and Yellow Lines, as well as Rail Emergency/Power Control. |
Rail
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2 | Online | |||
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Cicero Police Status: Down for maintenance will be back up shortly. |
Public Safety
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1 | 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, UP Rail - Rondout Area Broadcast of 18 rail channels from Libertyville, IL, (near Rondout Tower). CP, METRA, CN (Wisc Central and EJ&E), UP, and WSOR. Status: Reception is only about 25% of normal due to antenna problem - to be repaired when weather permits! |
Rail
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0 | Offline | |||
| 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 Fire 24/7 (Crystal Lake Police have moved to an encrypted channel) |
Public Safety
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7 | 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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2 | Online | |||
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Downers Grove and Westmont Police/Fire This feed monitors Downers Grove & Westmont Police/Fire. Additional channels included. More info under feed notes. |
Public Safety
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2 | Online | |||
| DuComm Fire - East | Public Safety
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1 | Online | |||
| DuComm Fire - North | Public Safety
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3 | Online | |||
| DuComm Fire - South | Public Safety
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2 | Online | |||
| DuComm Fire - West | Public Safety
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0 | 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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4 | 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. Status: Added new ACDC Fire 3 repeater (155.010 91.5) (Not sure if it's in use yet or what it's purpose is yet. Also added Addison's P25 Conventional repeater (Ch 8). |
Public Safety
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2 | Online | |||
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DuPage County Police Dispatch 1 - West Police 1 West Trunk 2609 Carol Stream and Bartlett Police for DuComm 1 North. |
Public Safety
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1 | Online | |||
| Dupage Fireground Blue | Public Safety
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0 | 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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1 | Online | |||
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Elgin Fire Broadcasting Elgin, IL Fire Dispatch and Elgin Fire OPS channels (fireground). Also, one day a week, you will hear Training Missions. |
Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
| Evergreen Park Fire | Public Safety
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1 | Online | |||
| Fox River and Countryside Fire Rescue | Public Safety
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3 | 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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4 | 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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10 | 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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6 | 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
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Huntley and Lake in the Hills Police, Fire / EMS Huntley Fire and EMS dispatched by SEECOM on the Starcom21 statewide system. P25 Phase II system. **As of November, 2019, Police Dispatch Encryption is enabled. Fire and select events talk groups are open to hear!** |
Public Safety
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2 | Online | |||
| Huntley Fire | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
| Huntley Fire - Digital | 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. |
Other
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3 | Online | |||
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Illinois State Police Districts 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 15, 17, 21 This feed monitor's ISP Districts 1,2,5,6,7,8,10,15,17,21,Chicago |
Public Safety
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21 | Online | |||
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Indiana Lake Area Marine Lake Michigan Fishing Channels |
Marine
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0 | Online | |||
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K9SA 443.2500 MHz SUHFARS Repeater Sometimes shifts around to other area Amateur Radio Repeaters |
Amateur Radio
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0 | Online | |||
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Kane County Sheriff Dispatch and OEM KaneComm's police channel 1 which covers the Kane County Sheriff's Office and other police departments within the county of Kane. This feed also streams the Kane County OEM. |
Public Safety
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5 | Online | |||
| Kencom Fire | Public Safety
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1 | Online | |||
| Kenosha City Fire Dispatch | Public Safety
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3 | Online | |||
| Kenosha City Police and Fire | Public Safety
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94 | 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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6 | 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 Kenosha Counties Fire Lake County Illinois Quads 1, 2, 3, & 4, M.A.B.A.S, Firegrounds Red, White, and Blue. Kenosha County WI for Salem, Wilmot, Bristol, Pleasant Prairie. |
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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0 | Offline | |||
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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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0 | Online | |||
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Lake County Region Police Dispatch AUDIO PROVIDED BY REGION NEWS SOURCE www.regionnewssource.org |
Public Safety
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83 | Online | |||
| Lake Forest Fire | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
| Lake in the Hills Airport (3CK) | Aviation
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0 | Online | |||
| Lansing Fire | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
| Leyden Fire | 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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2 | Online | |||
| Mabas Division 20 Fire | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
| Marengo Fire | Public Safety
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4 | Online | |||
| McHenry City Police, Fire and EMS Dispatch | Public Safety
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7 | 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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1 | 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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0 | 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 | |||
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NE Will and SE DuPage Counties Municipal Police / Fire Feed will monitor the following agencies, with priority given to Downers Grove, Bolingbrook and Romeoville. Downers Grove PD/FD Bolingbrook PD/FD Romeoville PD/FD Plainfield PD/FD Darien PD/FD Westmont PD/FD Woodridge PD/FD ISP District 5 and 15 |
Public Safety
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3 | Online | |||
| NORCOM Police Dispatch | Public Safety
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1 | Online | |||
| North Palos Fire Dispatch | Public Safety
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1 | 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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0 | Offline | |||
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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 Status: Feed down for location change. Should be back up by 8/30/19. Sorry for the inconvenience. |
Public Safety
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0 | 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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13 | Online | |||
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Northwest Central Fire Northwest Central Fire Dispatch/Fireground |
Public Safety
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5 | 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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1 | Online | |||
| Norwood Park Fire | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
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O'Hare Airport Police and Fire O'Hare Public Safety (CPD, CFD, DOA) and Operations (TMA, etc) |
Public Safety
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2 | Online | |||
| Oak Forest Fire | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
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Oak Park, River Forest, Forest Park and Elmwood Park Police / Fire ((( 🔥 STEREO FEED 👮 ))) RIGHT -- Oak Park, River Forest, Forest Park police. LEFT -- Oak Park, River Forest, Forest Park and Elmwood Park fire. |
Public Safety
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4 | Online | |||
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Orland Fire District Dispatching for Orland, Oak Forest, Country Club Hills Main Fire Band and RED FG |
Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
| Palos Fire Protection District | 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 | |||
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Porter County Law Enforcement, Fire, and EMS This feed includes all Porter County Law Enforcement, Fire, EMS, Indiana State Police (Lake & Porter County), and National Park Service (Indiana Dunes NP) dispatch. Agencies are on the Indiana SAFE-T digital P25 trunked system. |
Public Safety
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16 | Online | |||
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Quad 3 and Lake Zurich Fire Quad 3 Fire, Lake Zurich Fire, Red Fireground and NIFERN. Note that as of the week of 20 May 2019, only the initial tone-out / dispatch is heard on the LZ FD dispatch frequency. |
Public Safety
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1 | 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 | |||
| 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. Status: The feed will be back online as soon as possible. |
Public Safety
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0 | Offline | |||
| Robbins Fire | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
| Roberts Park Fire | Public Safety
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1 | 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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0 | Online | |||
| Schiller Park Fire | Public Safety
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0 | Online | |||
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Southeast DuPage County Police and Fire This feed monitors Southeast DuPage County Police and Fire Agencies. More info under feed notes. |
Public Safety
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1 | Online | |||
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St Charles, Geneva, Batavia, Elburn and Sugar Grove Police TriCom Central Dispatch F1 Law Enforcement - Unit Designations:1) St. Charles 2) Geneva 3) Batavia 4) Elburn 5) Sugar Grove |
Public Safety
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1 | Online | |||
| Stickney Fire | Public Safety
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0 | Offline | |||
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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 and Orland Park Police, Fire / EMS Feed covers towns of Tinley Park, Orland Park, and the Illinois State Police Emergency Radio Network (ISPERN). |
Public Safety
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12 | 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 | |||
| Waukegan Fire | Public Safety
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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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0 | Online | |||
| Westcom Fire Dispatch | Public Safety
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0 | 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 | |||
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Will County Law Enforcement - Northeast Monitoring Central Patrol dispatch for Mokena, Frankfort, New Lenox, Manhattan, and WCSO. Will County P25 TG:20005 |
Public Safety
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1 | Online |