13 verified college, community and independent radio stations in Illinois: 5 accepting submissions right now, 6 more that take music by every sign we can...
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Illinois has 13 college, community and independent radio stations checked by hand. 5 publish a submission door you can use today, including WHPK in Chicago, WLUW in Chicago, WZRD in Chicago, and 6 more take music by every sign we can check without posting a formal route. Each row shows what the station plays, its current status, and how it takes music; the exact submission contact and posted rules are on your Rotation sheet.
How they take music → Email · No submission route is posted. The station publishes one general address and routes by show; each show page carries its own contact.
Evanston, IL
Indie, Jazz, Hip-Hop, Electronic, World, Rock, Pop, Gospel, Folk, Blues
WPNA 103.1 Polish-American Mix · Evanston, IL · Independent Commercial
How they take music → See sheet · No submission route posted. The site publishes phone numbers (office 1-[phone on your sheet], on-air 1-[phone on your sheet], text 1-[phone on your sheet]), a street address at [address on your sheet], Chicago, and a general Contact Us form. No email address and no demo or music-submission page.
How they take music → See sheet · No music submission route posted. The only address published anywhere on the site is [contact on your sheet], and the station scopes it explicitly to underwriting: it is offered to arrange support "in trade for on-air recognition" or to buy "local paid on-air programming time" for churches and schools. That is a sponsorship route, not a music route.
Canton, IL
Gospel
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How Illinois stations want it sent
Take music by email9 of 13
Submit through a form1 of 13
Want physical media1 of 13
Freeform, no genre lock3 of 13
Route music to a show1 of 13
Weigh local artists1 of 13
Ask for lossless audio2 of 13
Have their shows mapped7 of 13
Counted from the 13 Illinois stations on this page, from what each one publishes itself. It is the fastest way to read a market before you build anything for it: an envelope market and an inbox market ask different work of you. Across them, 85 individual shows are mapped from the stations' own published schedules, with the night and hour each one airs.
Every door is on your sheet.
Pick your sound and region on Rotation and each of these stations shows its real submission contact and the exact rules it posts: clean edit, WAV, form or mail. Checked by hand and kept current. No station here paid to be listed.
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