Live TV in Illinois without a cable contract

Any provider in Illinois works. What matters is speed at the TV, not on the plan sheet: run a speed test on the streaming device itself, because Wi-Fi through two walls can halve what the router delivers.

Chicago Cubs, Chicago Sky, Chicago Blackhawks, Chicago White Sox, Chicago Bears, and Chicago Fire FC and 3 more have team pages with the channels that carry their games. National broadcasts are in the lineup, and regional sports networks sit in their own group; fans who leave Illinois keep the same channel list wherever they sign in.

If your household is spread across Illinois, one plan can cover more than one place, as long as the number of streams playing at the same moment fits the connections on the plan. The channel list is identical everywhere.

Guide times follow your device, not the broadcaster. In Illinois, that means Central time. When a game listed for 8 p.m. shows at the wrong hour, the device time zone is the first thing to check, and the player's EPG offset setting is the second.

Chicago, Aurora, Joliet, Naperville, Rockford, and Elgin and 8 more Illinois cities have their own pages, with local teams and setup notes. Pricing starts at $10.42 a month on the 12-month plan ($125 up front), or $24.99 for a single month.