Waukegan wireless provider bonds.
$100 flat.
The City of Waukegan requires a wireless facility provider — a company installing small-cell nodes, antennas, or related equipment in the public right-of-way — to file a $15,000 surety bond, payable to the City, before it will issue a right-of-way permit. Ours is $100 flat — the price you see is the checkout price. The bond issues the moment you pay — a soft credit pull at most, never a hard inquiry.
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Three steps. One sitting.
A wireless facility provider bond is about the simplest filing in surety. Here's the entire process:
Apply online
Business details and an effective date. That's the application — no financials, and a soft pull at most.
Pay & e-sign
Bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
File with the City
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to file with Waukegan's licensing office alongside your right-of-way permit application. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
Illinois does not license wireless facility installers at the state level, so the City of Waukegan conditions its right-of-way permitting for small-cell nodes and related wireless equipment on the provider first posting a $15,000 surety bond with the City. No right-of-way permit for wireless work inside city limits is issued to an unbonded provider.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the City of Waukegan (the obligee), with the City's rights-of-way and the public as the protected parties. If a provider damages public infrastructure or fails to restore the right-of-way as its permit requires, the City can recover against the bond up to the $15,000 penal sum.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. The carrier's own filing for this bond shows a term that runs to a fixed December 31 renewal date; the renewal term is set at the application.
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One application, issued instantly.
These are the actual issuing fields — a soft pull at most, never a hard inquiry.
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$100 flat, soft pull only, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.