Top Music Stations in Illinois
You have a blast listening to music, while working, working out, and driving in your car. Sometimes though, you have troubles finding a music station that fits you. Sometimes your favorite station changes and what used to be a couple of minutes of commercials once an hour has become a couple of minutes of music once an hour! Or maybe you are new to Illinois, just visiting the area, or possibly just need a change. You have come to the right place.
Here we have all of the top Illinois music stations in one place, you are sure to find one that meets your tastes. Try out all of the Illinois stations and then give us your opinion on the best, worst, and any we don’t have on the list that should be. Whether you are in Illinois for a visit or have lived here for years, we want to hear your opinion.
We have catered our list of Illinois stations to the local opinions we have received so don’t stop sending them in. Music is an important part of our lives, in Illinois, and anywhere else. Music stations are also a personal thing. What is music to you? Is it what gets you through your daily commute in Illinois? Is it what you jam to in the shower? Is it what calms and centers you at work?
100.5 WYMG
Springfield, IL
WYMG (100.5 FM) is a radio station licensed to serve Chatham, Illinois. The station is owned by Saga Communications of Illinois, LLC. It airs a Classic rock music format. Its on-air talent includes Liz Willis, Sean Lynch, Jane Cochran, Joey McLaughlin, Stephanie George, Ed Janik and Nik Carter. The station has been assigned these call letters by the Federal Communications Commission since May 1, 1985.
107.5 FM WGCI
Chicago, IL
WGCI-FM (107.5 FM)is a Mainstream Urban radio station that has a city of license of Chicago, under ownership of Clear Channel Communications. WGCI was considered to be the most popular urban contemporary radio station in Chicago, the nation’s third largest radio market, and one of the most well-known and best-programmed urban contemporary stations throughout the 1980s and 1990s at a time when its music selection focused more on old school and house music. WGCI broadcasts at an effective radiated power of 3700 watts (3.7 kilowatts) at 107.5 megahertz (MHz) from atop the Willis Tower (the former Sears Tower) in Downtown Chicago, and has studios located on Michigan Avenue.
WBBM-FM
Chicago, IL
WBBM-FM, known on air as “B96”, is a Top 40 (CHR) radio station in Chicago owned by Entercom. The station broadcasts at 96.3 MHz with an ERP of 3.3 kW from a transmitter atop Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower), and its studios are located at Two Prudential Plaza in the Loop. WBBM-FM’s main competition is WKSC-FM, as well as urban rivals WGCI-FM and WPWX.
WUIS 91.9
Springfield, IL
WUIS is a member station of both NPR and also regularly broadcasts programs and specials from other sources. However, the station’s local information and music programming and statewide governmental news coverage have always been an integral part of its mission. WUIS originally hit the airwaves on January 3, 1975 as WSSR, operated by what was then Sangamon State University. It became WSSU in 1989, and adopted its current calls when Sangamon State merged with the University of Illinois system in 1995.
93.9 MY fm
Chicago, IL
WLIT-FM 93.9 FM, (93.9 LITE FM) is a radio station licensed to Chicago, featuring a format of Mainstream AC music. The station is currently owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. (formerly Clear Channel Communications until September 2014). WLIT has studios located at the Illinois Center complex on Michigan Avenue in Downtown Chicago, and it broadcasts from a 4kw transmitter and antenna based atop Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower). WLIT broadcasts with the maximum authorized power for a Class B FM station at the specified antenna height.
104.5 WFMB
Springfield, IL
WFMB-FM is a radio station licensed to Springfield, Illinois. WFMB airs a Country music format and is owned by Neuhoff Media LLC. Listeners can also Request, dedicate and share sonng on their website. You can also view the last 10 played of the station.
89.9 WLCA
Godfrey, IL
WLCA (89.9 FM) is a student-run radio station that is owned and operated by the Lewis and Clark Community College in Godfrey, Illinois. It currently plays an alternative rock/college radio format. It can be heard in the northern St. Louis, Missouri market area, as well as the city of St. Louis and parts of the Metro-East area. WLCA was the recipient of the 2001 and 2002 Achievement in Radio Award for the best student-run radio station in the St. Louis market.
94.7 WLS
Chicago, IL
Until October 1, 2012, WLS-FM was a classic hits leaning oldies station featuring music of the late ’60s and ’70s with some pre-1964 oldies and some ’80s hits mixed in moderation. The station actually switched to oldies on September 26, 2005, first carrying only syndicated “The True Oldies Channel” programming, but later adding local personalities including Rock and Roll Hall of Fame disc jockeys John Landecker, Scott Shannon, Dick Biondi, along with Greg Brown, Danny Lake, Brant Miller, and Fred Winston. The station’s official callsign changed to WLS-FM again on June 26, 2008.
The Mix FM 99.7
Springfield, IL
WXAJ, carrying the on-air branding of “99-7 The Mix,” is a Top 40 radio station licensed to Hillsboro, Illinois serving the Springfield, Illinois market.
The Loop 97.9
Chicago, IL
The Loop was born in 1977, out of a goofy station that had all girl DJs and played sappy “Adult Rock.” In ’79, an eccentric Hawaiian guy bought the station and brought in guys like Steve & Garry, Sky Daniels, and a dozen or so other misfits. First order of business was losing the James Taylor and pumpin’ out Nugent, Zeppelin, and everything that rocked blowing up the disco record and the rest is history.