Appearance Commission
Regular MeetingSkokie, IL · February 10, 2021
Agenda
A similar 104-foot antenna support structure can be found at ComEd's Willow Springs
substation.
The Willow Springs substation carries the common address of 8600 Willow Spring Road
in Willow Springs, but it is actually located on the south side of an industrial access road (leading
to Valvoline's Willow Springs facility) across the street from a Speedway gas station and just south
of the Tri-State Fire Protection District station which is situated at 8259 Willow Springs Road in
Willow Springs.
A picture of the structure as located at the Willow Springs substation is set forth below.
The structure is located to the rear of the substation control building. Note that if one visits
the Willow Springs substation, one will see a cellular telephone facility outside the boundaries of
the substation but adjacent to it. Know that, as noted earlier, neither ComEd's Structure at the
Oakton Street substation nor any portion of the Substation will be used for personal wireless
service (5G or otherwise) or any other commercial communications function other than the
Structure and other ComEd-only grid-related monitoring and functioning communications.
C. Site Plan and Renderings
As can be noted on the attached Site Plan, the proposed Structure will be situated within
the Substation approximately 8 feet southeast of the existing western substation control building.