Weather radio in Illinois

KZZ58: NOAA Weather Radio, Kankakee

162.525 MHz · 300 W · On the air

KZZ58 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.525 MHz (WX7 on most receivers) from Kankakee, with the transmitter at Aroma Park, Illinois, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Chicago, IL programs it. It covers 5 counties in Illinois and Indiana.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KZZ58 (the largest dot) and the transmitters within 100 miles, colored by their status now.

  • On the air
  • Degraded
  • Off the air

The transmitter

Call sign
KZZ58
Frequency
162.525 MHz (WX7)
Power
300 W
Status
On the air
Station
Kankakee
Transmitter site
Aroma Park
NWS office
Chicago, IL
Location
41.0775, -87.7561

Counties covered

Program a SAME receiver with the code of your county. Coverage is NWS’s note of the part of a county the signal reaches.

CountyStateSAME codeCoverage
IroquoisIllinois017075Whole county
KankakeeIllinois017091Whole county
WillIllinois017197Whole county
LakeIndiana018089Whole county
NewtonIndiana018111Whole county

Nearby transmitters

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Sources

Transmitters, status and county coverage from the National Weather Service’s NOAA Weather Radio county coverage listing (data). Public domain. Read September 26, 2026 at 9:25 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.