Illinois police scanner feeds

446 live feeds across 100 counties

A free Illinois police scanner: live police, fire, and EMS radio streaming from Illinois, with no radio hardware and no account. Counties with several feeds have their own page listing every channel; the rest are shown here with their feed count. All of it plays free in the Police Scanner app.

Busiest feeds in Illinois

All areas in Illinois

How coverage is spread across Illinois

Illinois's 446 feeds are spread over 100 counties: 27 have a single feed, 44 have two to four, and 29 have five or more. The 5 largest listings — Cook (61), DuPage (25), Madison (19), La Salle (18) and McHenry (18) — carry 32% of everything streaming from the state.

Of the 29 counties with their own page, 28 carry a police or sheriff channel, 29 carry fire and 25 carry EMS; there are also aviation in 3, railroad in 14, weather in 19 and amateur radio in 7.

Winnebago has fire or EMS feeds but no law-enforcement channel listed. That pattern usually means the local police or sheriff has encrypted its radio, so fire and medical dispatch is what remains open to listen to there.

Feeds are filed by county, not by town. If your town is not in the tables above, look for the county it sits in — city police and fire channels are listed under it. The guide to finding your local feed covers the rest.

Nearby states

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Before you listen

Scanner listening is legal across the United States, with narrow exceptions — the rules by state. If your local police channel is missing, it has most likely been encrypted; fire and EMS usually remain open in the same area.