The Low End
Chicagoland.Low.End.Stations

  What is Chicagoland?  Good question...it encompasses all of Metro Chicago and Cook County, as well as the "collar" counties of Lake, DuPage, Will, Kane, Grundy and Kendall, as well as Lake County, Indiana.  It's a big area, and where you live in the Chicagoland region will in part determine which stations you can hear.  The quality of your receiver and type of antenna you're using will also affect this.

87.9 
 WCSH -- Orland Park, IL. ("Voice of Carl Sandburg H.S.") (Pirate -- Off The Air)

88.1
 WCRX -- Chicago, IL. (Columbia College) 100wts/128'd [Rock/Dance]

 WETN -- Wheaton, IL. (Wheaton College) 250wts/141'd

 WLRA -- Lockport, IL. (Lewis University) 250wts/95'

 WLTL -- LaGrange, IL. (Lyons Township H.S.) 180wts/138'd [Rock/Variety]

 WNTH -- Winnetka, IL. (New Trier H.S.) 100wts/82'd

 WSSD -- Chicago, IL. (Lakeside Communications) 10wts/101' [Blues/Soul]

88.3
 WDGC -- Downers Grove, IL. (DuPage County School Dist.99) 250wts/131'd

 WDSO -- Chesterton, IN. (Duneland School Corp.) 410wts/134'd [Rock]

 WFEN -- Rockford, IL. (Faith Academy) 8300wts/574'd [Christ.]

 WXAV -- Chicago, IL. (St. Xavier University) 150wts/127'd [Rock/Variety] "The X"

 WZRD -- Chicago, IL. (NE Illinois University) 100wts/72' [Variety] "The Wizard"

 WAWF -- Kankakee, IL. (American Family Assoc.) 100wts/285' [Religious]

88.5
 WGBK
-- Glenview, IL. (Glenview H.S.) 100wts/98'

 WHFH -- Flossmoor, IL. (Homewood/Flossmoor H.S.) 1500wts/91'd

 WHPK -- Chicago, IL. (University of Chicago) 100wts/121' [Variety]

 WHSD -- Hinsdale, IL. (Hinsdale Central H.S.) 125wts/131'd

88.7
 WCSF -- Joliet, IL. (College of St. Francis) 100wts/127'

 WGVE -- Gary, IN. (Gary Community School Corp.) 2100wts/91'

 WLUW -- Chicago, IL. (Loyola University) 100wts/229' [Independent Community Radio]

 WRSE -- Elmhurst, IL. (Elmhurst College) 100wts/95'd [Variety]

88.9
 WYMS -- Milwaukee, WI. (Milwaukee Pub. Schools)1500wts/869' (Jazz/Ethnic)

 WEPS -- Elgin, IL. (Union School Dist. 46) 740wts/32'

 WMXM -- Lake Forest, IL. (Lake Forest College) 300wts/111'd

 WIIT -- Chicago, IL. (Illinois Inst. of Technology) 17wts/88' (Formerly WOUI)

 WRRG -- River Grove, IL. (Triton College) 100wts/127'd [Rock/Alternative] {Mono}

 WWGN -- Ottawa, IL. 1500wts/646' [Christ.]

 WARG -- Summit, IL. (Argo-Summit H.S.) 500wts/82'd [Rock] (Off The Air)

 WJCG -- Monee, IL. (Moody Bible Institute) 100wts/82' [Christ.]

89.1
 WONC -- Naperville, IL. (North Central College) 1500wts/164' [Rock]

 WNIE -- Freeport, IL. (Northern Ill. Univ.) 6000wts/364' [NPR]

89.3
 WKKC -- Chicago, IL. (Kennedy-King College) 250wts/114'd (Ethnic)

 WNUR -- Evanston, IL. (NorthWestern University) 7200wts/98' [Jazz/Variety]

89.5
 WNIJ -- Dekalb, IL. (Northern Illinois University) 50000wts/466'd [NPR]

 WAJW -- Chesterton, IN. 7,000wts/216' - (Free-Form, Simulcasts WFMU, East Orange, NJ.)

89.7
 WONU-- Kankakee, IL. (Olivet Nazarene University) 35000wts/413' [Christ.]

 WUWM-- Milwaukee, WI. (U. of Wisconsin) 15500wts/869' [NPR]

90.1
 WMBI -- Chicago, IL. (Moody Bible Institute] 100000wts/439' [Christ.]

90.3
 WBCR -- Beloit, WI. (Beloit College) 30000wts/60' [Free-Form]

90.5
 WMTH -- Park Ridge, IL. (Maine Township H.S.) 8wts/101'

 WNIU -- Rockford, IL. (Northern Illinois University) 50,000wts/367'd [NPR]

 WRTE -- Chicago, IL. (Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum) 73wts/72' [Spanish]

90.7
 WBHI -- Chicago, IL. (Bogan H.S.) 7wts/55' [Off The Air]

 WHAD -- Delafield, WI. (University of Wisconsin) 79,000wts/700' [NPR]

90.9
 WDCB -- Glen Ellyn, IL. (College of DuPage) 5000wts/298' [Jazz/Blues/Variety]

91.1
 WGTD -- Kenosha, WI (Gateway Technical College) 5000wts/134'd [NPR]

 WTKC -- Kankakee, IL. (Kankakee Comm.College) 1750wts/305' [Kankakee County Tourism Info]

 WGSL -- Loves Park, IL. (Christian Life Ctr. School)4000wts/428' [Christ.]

91.3
 WNIW -- LaSalle, IL. (Northern Ill. Univ.) 36000wts/331' [NPR]

91.5
 WBEZ -- Chicago, IL. 8300wts/1180' [NPR/Jazz/News]

91.9
 WJCH -- Joliet, IL. (Family Stations, Inc.) 50000wts/495' [Christ.]

Station information is listed as follows:

Callsign
Location
Institution or Orgranization transmitter is licensed to.
Transmit Power/Antenna Height Above Average Terrain (HAAT).
Programming Format(s), if known.
All stations transmit in stereo, unless otherwise noted.
A lower-case "d" following antenna height indicates that a directional antenna is begin used.

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