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Will County 911: Police/Fire

• 9 PSAPS WESCOM (8 FD, 5 PD), EASTCOM, Joliet (JPD, JFD), Romeoville (PD), Lincolnway (3 PDs), Wilmington (PD, Elwood FD, Custer Park FD), Braidwood (BFD, BPD), Steger, Will County. Will County EMA is backup for 911.
• Beecher PD, Monee PD, Peotone PD have switched to the Will County Public Safety system.

Hospitals

Provena Mercy Center

• KJ5715 155.2200 Mobile (11K Aurora)
• KQY609 155.2200 Mobile (11K Joliet)

Silver Cross Hospital (Joliet)

• Website

Central Dispatch Agencies

EASTCOM - Eastern Will County Communications Network

Some ops (For Peotone, Beecher, Monee) now on Will County TRS. Dispatches for: Crete, Crete Township, Beecher, Steger, University Park

1/12 - Still hearing occasional traffic on old VHF East Com freqency 155.1450 225.7PL. Have heard Beecher and Monee use this as car to car or as a talk around of the Will County trunked system they normally use.

WESCOM

• Website http://www.wescom-9-1-1.org/

Police IDs

West 158.8500 R/154.8750 ------------- 
100s: Plainfield (Dispatched on SC21 TG 1001,1002) 
200s: Channahon 
500s: Plainfield Park District (?) 
700s: Shorewood 

East 155.7300 R/156.0300 ------------- Deprecated, now dispatched on Will County Public Service P25
100s: Crest Hill 
500s: Lockport
600s: Lockport Township Park District Police

Fire

MABAS Division 15 Dispatch

• For Plainfield, Troy, Channahan, Lockport, Northwest Homer, Rockdale, Wilmington, Minooka
• 155.3550 Paging Bases at:
  • WQAG716: Plainfield, Shorewood, Channahon, Lockport, Homer Glen, Rockdale
  • WQAG719: Lockport, Wilmington, Plainfield, Seward Township (Kendall), Braidwood (Will), Minooka (Grundy)
  • WPWL581: Shorewood (Will)
  • WQJD352: Lockport (Will) (Lockport Twp. primarily dispatched on 154.8525), Elwood, and Custer Park. FCC application to add site at the water tower on Taylor road in Romeoville

Updates

• 12/5/10 - WESCOM converted its analog "Police 1" system (158.8500 88.5 PL) to narrowband AND simulcast. This system covers Channahon, Shorewood, Wilmington and Braidwood. These transmitters are linked by microwave and "timed" by way of GPS synchronization. The transmitters "re-train" each day (usually at 2am) and re-sync to make sure the overlap zones have good signal. You may hear what sounds like data bursts when "re-training" occurs. Each transmit site also has a voting receiver.
  • There are 4 additional free-standing receivers which are recycled Motorola TAC receivers (8 total receive sites).
  • Tait processes the audio, cleans it up, and sends each audio path to the voter. (This was all done under a series of grants and has been VERY cost effective for WESCOM agencies.

• 2/11 WPCV634 158.85 R adding sites at Braidwood, Channahon, Wilmington; also at Shorewood
• 6/11 0004759323 FCC Application for STA for testing of 154.8675 as a replacement for 154.875 input to 158.85 repeater.
• 8/11 FCC Modification to WPCV634 changing 154.8750 to 154.8675 permanently.
• 1/12 FCC Application 0005049842 for 155.7300 Repeater at Lockport (11K, assoc. call sign: KCQ308)

Orland Central Dispatch

• Located within the Orland Fire District. The center opened June of 1992, dispatching fire and emergency medical incidents for Orland Park and Orland Hills. In October of 1992, Orland Central began dispatching for the Homer Township Fire District. Since that time, Calumet City, East Joliet, Mokena, and Peotone and Fire are also being dispatched by Orland Central. Orland Central is a Mutual Aid Box Alarm System dispatch center for twelve area fire departments as well. Additional functions of this center are being the Southwest Hazardous Material Response Center as well as handling the Combined Agency Response Team (tactical rescue) for agencies.
  • 10/08 - CARMA member reports now hear Automated Voice Dispatch on 159.045 (for tone out: human on responses)

Orland Park Fire Protection District

Website

• 7/11 - FCC Modification to WPMQ284:
  • add 154.0700 Base at Blue Island
  • add 159.0450 Base/Moible at Oak Forest
  • keep 159.0450, 158.8575 R at Orland Park
  • add 155.3025 Base/Mobile at Orlank Park
  • Delete 159.0450 Base at Lockport, Mokena, Peotone, Romeoville

Lincolnway Communication Center (Frankfort)

• As of 2/24/09, these Fire Depts are being dispatched on 151.1825 MHz, the new repeater.:
  • Frankfort Fire District, Mokena Fire District, Manhattan Fire District., New Lenox Fire District, East Joliet Fire District (They may still simulcast on 154.4000 MHz, at least for awhile. The new repeater has 2 sites, Frankfort & New Lenox)
• Police departments Dispatched: New Lenox, Mokena, Frankfort

Municipalities and Districts

• 1/31/07 - Towns to buy 113 cop radios (By Susan DeMar Lafferty SUN-TIMES NEWS GROUP)
  • Frankfort, Mokena and New Lenox are teaming up to purchase new radios for police officers. 113 800 MHz units will be bought with grant funds from a settlement agreement under the Telecommunications Infrastructure Maintenance Fee Act. The new equipment will allow all of their police officers to have a portable radio capable of communicating on Will County's 800 MHz system, and be used as a backup should the Lincolnway radio network fail.
  • Ultimately, this would become their primary source of communication as they transition to this new 800 MHz technology, Mokena Police Chief Randy Rajewski said. Mokena and New Lenox decided to share the funds with Frankfort because they rely heavily on each other for 911 services, Chief Martin said. "This benefits every officer on our network," Chief Rajewski said.

Bolingbrook

• Police IDs are phonetic letters followed by numbers such as Paul 5 and Edward 2.
• EMS to Hospital communications are on Nextel PBX.
• KJK371 155.3700. They have one base station used to reach neighboring police departments.
• KNQ451 - 154.2650 BM IFERN; KZJ504 155.0550 B I-REACH; KB24037 155.2200 M MERCI220, 155.3400 M MERCI340 and the first 8 UHF MERCI duplex channels, 463.000/468.0000 through 463.1750/468.1750; KXO595 BM 37.2600 old ESDA low band.

Bolingbrook Park District

• WQOP596 for Portables on 466.1000, 466.1250, 466.1500, 466.1750, 466.2000 (4wt-11K)

Channahon

Channahon Fire Protection District

• Website
• 3 ALS ambulances, 1 ALS Engine
• WPIV579 adding 155.7975 Repeater with 158.8200 (11K)

Channahon Park District

• Website

Crest Hill (City)

• Website

Crete

Crete Township Fire

• Website

Frankfort

Frankfort Fire Protection District

• Website
• Dispatched by Lincoln-way Public Safety Communication Center

Joliet

• Joliet Police identify by the sector in which they work (10s east side, 20s central, 30s west side) and also have cover cars that identify as "west cover", "northeast cover", etc.
• WQEL588 Water Data, deleteing 452.5125, 452.6125, 452.575, changing to 452.0125

Joliet Township

• Township Website

Homer Township Fire Protection District

• Website
• Dispatched by Orland Central on 159.045. Servces 23 sq. m. with 18,000 people in Homer Glen and areas in eastern Lockport, northern sections of New Lenox and parts of unincorporated Homer Township.

Lockport

• Police formerly used 155.025 as F-7 and current is able to monitor "fire band" in squad cars. (not sure now if they have the new frequency)
• Police are dispatched by WESCOM along with Crest Hill on talkgroup 1409 on the Will County Public Service P25 system.
• Police car to car and special use is over the city's VHF LTR system.

Lockport Township Fire Protection District

• Website
• 6 Stations serving 70,000 people in 42 sq. miles including Lockport, Crest Hill, Romeoville, unincorporated areas of the township and areas of Joliet, Troy and Homer Townships.
• Dispatched by WESCOM

Manhattan

Manhattan Fire

• Website

Mokena

Mokena Fire

• Website
• Serves portions of Frankfort, Homer Glen, Mokena and Orland Park with 17,000 people over 12 sq.m..

Naperville (City)

• WNTN487 928.54375, 952.54375 11K for Meter Data?
• WNTP990 928.54375, 952.54375 11K for Meter Data?

New Lenox

New Lenox Fire Protection District

• Website

Fire Dispatch is by Lincoln-way Public Safety Communication Center

New Lenox Park District

• Website

Northwest Homer (Township) Fire & Ambulance Protection District (Lockport)

• Township Website

Orland Park

• Also located in Cook County
• Fire Website
• Firehouse Map

Plainfield

Police Department

• Website
• "PA" license WQGN804 TF/F 4940.0 - 4990.0 (IP Serveilance Cameras)

Plainfield Fire Protection District Ambulance Department

• Website

Romeoville

Romeoville Police Department

• Police IDs are 300s. Police use a Nextel for a lot of unit to unit/car to car comms.

Romeoville Fire Department

• Self dispatched on 159.2325
• A portion of Romeoville is covered by Lockport Township Fire, dispatched by WESCOM.

University Park

• Police are dispatched on 470.5625 203.5 PL by EastCom (units ???); also 470.4375 203.5 PL link to other departments
• Fire is dispatched on 154.235 97. PL by EastCom

Wilmington

• 9/11/11 - Submitter reports: "The Wilmington police frequency of 155.310/159.210 118.8 appears to no longer be active"
• 12/09 - Wilmington Police is now being dispatched by Wescom Dispatch on a simulcast of 155.31 118.8 PL and 158.850 88.5 PL

Schools and Colleges

Will County Area Career Center (Romeoville)

• 1/11 New WQNK811 - mobiles on 466.05, 466.075, 466.1, 466.125, 466.15 (11K)

School Buses

• 451.9875 456.9875 WPTZ256 RM 223 DPL Cook Illinois Corporation (Grand Prairie Lockport)
  • Cook Illinois Corp. is the parent company of 18 different busing companies.

Bolingbrook Schools

• 451.1875 456.1875 WQBD915 RM 162 DPL BHS Security BHS Security [F-1] FM
• 451.4875 456.4875 WQBD915 RM 411 DPL MHS Maintenc BHS Maintenance [F-2] FM

Channahon Schools

District #17

Coal City Schools

• 464.2250 469.2250 KNGV971 RM Ops [Term 4/02]
• 464.2250 469.2250 KNGV971 RM Ops ( Wilmington) [Term 4/02]

Crete-Monee Schools

Crete-Monee School District #201-U

463.4125  468.4125  WQJZ736  RM CrMon Sch 1   Operations (10 locations, also WQJZ737)
463.7000  468.7000  WPWW234  RM CrMon Sch 3   Operations   
464.6250  469.6250  WPWW234  RM CrMon Sch 2   Operations (University Park)  FM 
464.3250             WPWW234  M  CrMon Sch 5   Operations  FM  Schools  
464.8250             WPWW234  M  CrMon Sch 6   Operations  FM  Schools  
467.7625             WPWW234  M  CrMon Sch 7   Operations  FM  Schools  
467.8125             WPWW234  M  CrMon Sch 8   Operations  FM  Schools  
467.8500             WPWW234  M  CrMon Sch 9   Operations  FM  Schools  
467.8500             WPWW234  M  CrMon Sch 10  Operations  FM  Schools  
469.2625             WPWW234  M  CrMon Sch 11  Operations  FM  Schools  
469.5000             WPWW234  M  CrMon Sch 12  Academic/Athelitic Events (Itinerant Statewide)
469.5500             WPWW234  M  CrMon Sch 13  Academic/Athelitic Events (Itinerant Statewide)

Frankfort Schools

Frankfort Community Unit School District #157c

• 464.97500 469.97500 WQBR695 RM Operations (also Joliet Township)

Chelsea Elementary / Intermediate School

• WQQJ833 - 451.7125 Repeater, 452.6275 Mobiles, 452.0375 Mobile (NFM)

Grand Prairie Elementary

• 7/13 FCC Application 0005823139 for 461.4375 Repeater (NFM) for operations

Lincolnway Community High School District 210 (Frankfort)

• Website
• Heard on 463.6875: 118, VM 188, "Dubble Bubble-take kids home", calling electrian
• 463.3500 WZH838 RM LWCHS Ops 4 CHSD#210 FM Schools
• 462.3500 WQJT836 RM LWCHS Ops 1 CHSD#210: Buses/Safety/Maintenance (Mokena)
• 461.8750 WQJT836 RM LWCHS Ops 2 CHSD#210: Buses/Safety/Maintenance (New Lenox)
• 463.6500 WZH838 RM LWCHS Ops 3 Community High School District: Ops
• 466.4875 WQGK884 M LWASE Ops 3 Lincoln Way Area Special Education: Operations
• 466.5875 WQGK884 M LWASE Ops 2 Lincoln Way Area Special Education: Operations
• 464.9750 WQOP204 RM Lincoln Way High School (Frankfort) NFM

Homer Glen / Homer Township Schools

Homer Community Consolidated School District

• 152.4125 157.6725 RM WPPH536 - William E. Young and Luther J. Schilling schools
  • These schools are across the street from one another along with the bus barn, all just a few addresses apart, are radios used for all?
  • Control point is adjacent to Homer Jr. High and Hadley Middle School, frequency used for these schools also?

Naperville / Bolingbrook Schools

Indian Prairie School District #204

• Website
• 451.3500 WPMR282 BM IPSD A Op1 Security/Maintenance - Aurora (DuPage)
• 452.2750 WPPA707 BM IPSD A Op2 Maintenance/Admin - Aurora (Kane)
• 452.3250 WPMR282 BM IPSD A Op3 Security/Maintenance - Aurora (DuPage)
• 452.3500 WPMR282 BM IPSD A Op4 Security/Maintenance - Aurora (DuPage)
• 461.7000 WPMR282 RM IPSD A Op5 Security/Maintenance - Aurora (DuPage)
• 463.3500 WPMR282 RM IPSD A Op6 Security/Maintenance - Aurora (DuPage)
• 452.1000 WPMR282 RM IPSD N Op1 Security/Maintenance - Naperville (DuPage)
• 452.2250 WPPA707 BM IPSD N Op2 Maintenance/Admin - Naperville (DuPage)
• 452.2750 WPPA707 BM IPSD N Op3 Maintenance/Admin - Naperville (DuPage)
• 461.5500 WPMR282 RM IPSD N Op4 Security/Maintenance - Naperville (Will)
• 452.5000 WPPA707 BM IPSD B Ops Maintenance/Admin - Bollingbrook (Will)
• 464.0125 RM IPSD A2Op1 Ops (1801 N Eola Rd-Aurora)
• 464.2125 RM IPSD A2Op1 Ops (1801 N Eola Rd-Aurora)
• 464.4125 RM IPSD A2Op1 Ops (1801 N Eola Rd-Aurora)
• 466.0250 M IPSD A2Op1 Ops (1801 N Eola Rd-Aurora)
• 466.1000 M IPSD A2Op1 Ops (1801 N Eola Rd-Aurora)
• 466.1500 M IPSD A2Op1 Ops (1801 N Eola Rd-Aurora)
• 466.1750 M IPSD A2Op1 Ops (1801 N Eola Rd-Aurora)
• 466.2500 M IPSD A2Op1 Ops (1801 N Eola Rd-Aurora)
• 457.6875 WPQY556 M IPSD WES 1 Wheatland Elementary School - Naperville (11K)
• 457.2875 WPQY556 M IPSD WES 2 Wheatland Elementary School - Naperville (11K)
• 457.1625 WPQY556 M IPSD WES 3 Wheatland Elementary School - Naperville (11K)
• 457.8125 WPQY556 M IPSD WES 4 Wheatland Elementary School - Naperville (11K)
• 457.6625 WPQY556 M IPSD WES 5 Wheatland Elementary School - Naperville (11K)

Joliet Schools

• 452.2000 457.2000 WQHN273 RM JTHS ?? Joliet Township High School (*corrected freq 6/08) FMN Schools
• 461.2000 466.2000 WPRT799 RM Joliet School District #86
• 461.9250 466.9250 WQHN273 RM 031 DPL JTHS Teacher Joliet Township High School: Teacher Ops

Laraway CC School District #70c (Joliet)

• 11/12 FCC App 0005479099 for Laraway Elementary - 159.5850 Base/Mobile (NFM)
• 11/12 FCC App 0005479099 for Oak Valley Primary - 159.7350 Base/Mobile (NFM)

Lockport Schools

• WQEG659 72.1000 Wireless Clocks at St. Dennis School

Lockport Township High School District 205

• Lockport Township High School Website
• [Lockport Township High School (LTHS) - VHF LTR]
• WQOW215 - 152.9225 Repeater with 159.5925 input (Lockport - Bus barn at Farrel Rd & Division Street)
  • modify WQOW215 to 159.5925 input from 159.6600 (9/12)
• KJQ621 - 155.2200 BM LTHS Buses pl: 67.0
  • KJQ621 license valid through 2023, however, frequency is not in use or is used very rarely. Buses and other transportation personnel for both campuses are using 152.9225

Other Lockport Schools

* 155.1600                      BM  Homr SD Bus  Homer Schools: Buses ?  
* 451.3500  456.3500   WPZK772  RM  District 91 Schools Kelvin Grove, Milne Grove
* 467.2125             WQWI424  M   Taft School Dist. 90, low power portables

Manhattan Schools

Manhattan School District #114

• 461.4500 466.4500 WNXD724 RM Ops (Lockport)
• 463.7750 468.7750 WNXD724 RM Ops (Manhattan)

Mokena Schools

Mokena Public School District #159

• 152.9825 159.8625 WQIY398 RM Mokna SchBus Transportation
• 155.2650 KJB391 BM Transportation

New Lenox Schools

New Lenox School District #122

• WPYK340 72.1000 F Wireless Clocks

461.2000  466.2000   WPXB473  RM  Elementary Schools  FM  Schools  
464.3250      KNNS362  M  Ops [Term 5/02]  FM  Schools  
464.8250      KNNS362  M  Ops [Term 5/02]  FM  Schools  
467.7625      KNNS362  M  Ops [Term 5/02]  FM  Schools  
467.8125      KNNS362  M  Ops [Term 5/02]  FM  Schools  
467.8500      KNNS362  M  Ops [Term 5/02]  FM  Schools  
467.8750      KNNS362  M  Ops [Term 5/02]  FM  Schools  
467.9000      KNNS362  M  Ops [Term 5/02]  FM  Schools  
467.9250      KNNS362  M  Ops [Term 5/02]  FM  Schools  

Oswego Schools

Oswego Community Unit School District #308

• Kendall/Will Counties
• WQBQ681 71.1000 72.1200 72.1800 72.2200 72.3600 72.3400 72.4000 Wireless Clocks
• 464.1000 WNST523 RM Operations (Plainfield) [Exp 7/05] FM Schools

Peotone Schools

Peotone Community Unit District #207 (Peotone/Frankfort)

• Website
• 463.5000 468.5000 WPFV775 RM School Ops (@ Peotone, Frankfort)

Plainfield Community Consolidated School District #202

• Website

461.47500     WQIB499  RM  Pfld HS N 1  North High School   FMN  Schools  
464.00000     WQCY986  RM  Pfld HS N 2  North High School  FMN  Schools  
452.70000     WQIB499  RM  Pfld HS S 1  South High School   FMN  Schools  
461.38750     WPTQ6346 RM  Pfld HS S 2  South High School: Security  FMN  Schools  
452.70000     WQIB499  RM  Pfld HS E 1  East High School   FMN  Schools  
464.22500     WQIB499  RM  Pfld HS Cntr  Central High School   FMN  Schools  
451.95000      WQIB499  M  Pfld Sch Op1  Portables (all schools)  FMN  Schools  
452.45000      WQIB499  M  Pfld Sch Op2  Portables (all schools)   FMN  Schools  
452.67500      WQIB499  M  Pfld Sch Op3  Portables (all schools)   FMN  Schools  
456.95000      WQIB499  M  Pfld Sch Op4  Portables (all schools)   FMN  Schools  
457.45000      WQIB499  M  Pfld Sch Op5  Portables (all schools)   FMN  Schools  
457.67500      WQIB499  M  Pfld Sch Op6  Portables (all schools)   FMN  Schools  
461.05000      WQIB499  M  Pfld Sch Op7  Portables (all schools)   FMN  Schools  
464.17500      WQIB499  M  Pfld Sch Op8  Portables (all schools)   FMN  Schools  
466.05000      WQIB499  M  Pfld Sch Op9  Portables (all schools)   FMN  Schools  
469.17500      WQIB499  M  Pfld SchOp10  Portables (all schools)   FMN  Schools  
462.16250     WQLL646  RM  Pfld SchOp11  CUSD #202 (Joliet)  11K

Diamond Schools

Reed Custer School District 255w (Diamond)

• 451.30000 456.30000 WPDX27x RM Ops

Richland School (Crest Hill)

• 151.89500 WNZN727 BM Ops FM Schools

Steger Schools

• Website

Steger Public Schools District #194

• 461.30000 WQGH944 RM Steg SchOps Security/Maintenance (Old?)
• 461.97500 WQGH944 RM Steg SchOps1 Security/Maintenance (NFM)
• 462.57500 WPRI509 BM Steg SchOps2 School Ops (NFM)
• 151.77500 BM Steg SchOps3 Operations

Troy Community Consoildated School District 30c (Shorewood)

• 464.57500 469.57500 WPXL518 RM 203.5 PL TSD30c Ops Operations/Transportation
  • possible tone heard Joliet area 5/08

Valley View Public Community Unit School District #365v (Romeoville)

461.42500  KSZ591   RM  VVSD Ops R1  Operations (900 W Romeo Rd)  
461.97500  KSZ591   RM  VVSD OpsR10  Operations (900 W Romeo Rd) 
464.76250  KSZ591   RM  VVSD OpsR11  Operations (900 W Romeo Rd)(also WPYM658) 
151.80500  WPGS302  M   VVSD365 Ops2  Operations   
464.81500  WPGS302  M   VVSD365 Ops3  Operations   
451.48750  WQDB915  RM  VVSD365 Ops5  Operations (Bollingbrook)  FMN   
466.20000  WQDB918  M   VVSD365 Ops6  Staff Ops    
466.70000  WQDB918  M   VVSD365 Ops7  Staff Ops    
466.97500  WQDB918  M   VVSD365 Ops8  Staff Ops    
467.10000  WQDB918  M   VVSD365 Ops9  Staff Ops    
464.15000  WQIS471  RM  Luk Mid Schl  Lukancic Middle School (Romeoville)  

Will County School District #92

• 151.74500 WPEK537 BM Ops [Term 6/02]

Wilmington School District #209-U

• 155.95250 160.01250 WQKA385 RM Wilm School Operations FMN

Colleges

Governors State University (University Park)

• KXH777 KTK67 R 453.6 453.65 (Park Forest)
• 9/12 FCC App 0005408360 for 464.6875 Repeater (7/11K) for Security Admin

Lewis University (Romeoville)

• WQPF795 - 457.6625 1000-2wt 11K Digital for Security Alarm Monitoring

University of St. Francis (Joliet)

• 72.1 WQDT755 Wireless Clock System

Codes & Lists

Will County Police Unit IDs

• Lockport Police: 500's
• Lockport Park District Police: 600's
• Crest Hill Police: 100's
• Code Lincoln 50: Unit out at the PD
• Romeoville Police: 300's

Fire Tone Outs

• These are in two tone "Quick Call II" format.

Department Tone A Tone B Long tone C

• Beecher 1062 832 926
• University Park 1355 1322
• Steger 2568 1663
• Crete ESDA 1233
• Crete Town 832 1062

Businesses

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