04/15/2026
Update 10:30 am 4/16 - I'm confident the tower will stay up, even if it remains on emergency power, so I'll go ahead and call this the final update for this post. I also want to give a big shout out to our Field and Tower crews who worked really hard in pretty bad conditions to get all this running!
Update 8:30 am 4/16 - The northern Pearl City tower is back up on emergency power. It should hold for quite a while, and assuming utility power to the site is restored in the meantime, it shouldn't go down again. I won't mark this as the final update yet just in case, but we should be in the clear.
Update 5 pm - Looks like everything is up except for the northern tower location for Pearl City, the site with the downed electrical lines. I will update as soon as I have more info.
Update 11 am - Two tower sites in Pearl City - the southern site and the site in town, are back up now. The northern site has downed electrical lines around the tower making it unsafe to work on at the moment.
Update 10:30 am - While I have not been given an official update about the status, I just noticed that the Babbs Grove tower is back up at this time. If there are any other expected issues with that location I'll update this update right away, but from my end connections look solid.
Update 9:30 am - Two sites in Pearl City have been brought up on a temporary backup connection. We are expecting instability with this temporary link so please bear with us if it goes up and down while work continues, but in any case something is better than nothing!
Good morning everyone! I am very glad to announce we took no major structural damage, and a vast majority of our towers are up after the storm. We do have a few sites without utility power, according to the boss we are expecting to have many of these sites within two hours, pending of course utility power being fully restored.
We are expecting electrical fluctuations as ComEd repairs downed lines and poles.
The main areas that are affected now are Pearl City/Babbs Grove Rd, and a small area in the Galena territory.
Most importantly for everyone's day to day business, we do expect some of our high capacity links between towers to have been knocked out of alignment, the extent of which is unknown at this time. What this means for you is that some towers may become congested and experience slow speeds. I will be attempting to maintain a list here as I am updated of areas where this is to be expected at any given time so you all have the most update to date information on your individual services.
For those on towers that are down, we have no way of seeing signal strength or determining if any individual customer antennas have been blown out of alignment yet. So please watch this post for updates, and if you see that everything is all clear for your area and is still having issues, give us a call right away at that point.
Our office will be open til 5 pm, and I will be personally available after 5 pm, and we can be reached at 815-233-2138. Thank you and I hope everyone is safe!
