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Cell towers in Aurora, Illinois

The FCC register lists 21 antenna structures in and around Aurora. That is the 24th highest count of any place in Illinois.

Registered structures
21
Median height
49 m (161 ft)
−21.8% vs state median
Tallest
138 m (451 ft)
Per 100k residents
11.6
population 181,505 (2025)

Overview

Aurora, IL has 21 registered antenna structures on the FCC register — the 24th largest count among the 1,119 places in Illinois that have any.

Area density is 0.46 per square mile — usually the more telling figure for infrastructure that follows terrain, roads and line of sight rather than population.

Median height here is 49 m (161 ft), compared with 63 m (206 ft) across Illinois as a whole.

Lattice towers (3) and guyed masts (2) between them make up much of the register here — both are older, taller designs than the monopoles that dominate newer urban sites.

The oldest structure on file here was registered in 1990, the newest in 2025 — 35 years of build-out visible in one register.

Structure types

Monopole 8
38%
Tower 7
33%
Lattice tower 3
14%
Guyed tower 2
10%
Pole 1
5%

Largest registered owners

owner is not the same as carrier
American Towers LLC Tower company 5
24%
Vb-s1 Assets, LLC Tower company 3
14%
Sba 2012 Tc Assets, LLC Tower company 3
14%
Aurora Antenna Rental INC Other 1
5%
C1 Chicago - Aurora I & Tower and Chicago - Aurora II LLC Tower company 1
5%

Tallest registered structures

Height Type Built Owner ASR
138 m (451 ft) Guyed tower 1990 American Towers LLC 113391
131 m (429 ft) Tower 1990 Aurora Antenna Rental INC 113667
109 m (358 ft) Lattice tower 2018 Cyrusone LLC 2705589
93 m (305 ft) Lattice tower 2025 C1 Chicago - Aurora I & Tower and Chicago - Aurora II LLC 2729996
81 m (265 ft) Tower 2011 Illinois Bell Telephone Company 113914
78 m (255 ft) Tower 1999 Illinois State Toll Highway Authority 2607647
61 m (199 ft) Monopole 2012 At&t Mobility Spectrum LLC 2682002
61 m (199 ft) Guyed tower 2012 American Towers LLC 2684621
61 m (199 ft) Lattice tower 2019 Scientel Tower Properties LLC 2703800
56 m (182 ft) Monopole 1997 American Towers LLC 619633
49 m (161 ft) Tower 2005 Vb-s1 Assets, LLC 2649274
49 m (160 ft) Monopole 2016 Pi Tower Development LLC 2698364
48 m (158 ft) Monopole 1998 American Towers LLC 2690658
48 m (158 ft) Tower 2000 Crown Castle Gt Company, LLC 2675494
47 m (154 ft) Monopole 2004 Sba 2012 Tc Assets, LLC 2669640
43 m (140 ft) Tower 2005 Vb-s1 Assets, LLC 2649333
39 m (129 ft) Monopole 2016 Vb-s1 Assets, LLC 2713242
38 m (125 ft) Monopole 2010 Sba 2012 Tc Assets, LLC 2610170
35 m (114 ft) Pole 2000 American Towers LLC 2610168
34 m (110 ft) Monopole 2000 Sba 2012 Tc Assets, LLC 2670436
24 m (77 ft) Tower 2001 Stc Two LLC 2622475

When they were registered

1990s 5
24%
2000s 7
33%
2010s 8
38%
2020s 1
5%

Nearby places

About this data

Figures are drawn from the FCC's public antenna structure register (2026-08-23). It covers structures that need registering — broadly those over 200 feet or close to an airport — and not the many shorter installations that carry mobile traffic.

The FCC Antenna Structure Registration database covers structures that require registration — generally those over 200 feet or near airports. Many small cells, rooftop antennas and short towers are not registered and will not appear here.

"Owner" is the entity that registered the structure, usually a tower company such as American Tower or Crown Castle. It does not indicate which carriers operate equipment on the structure.