Tinley Park, IL Animal Ordinances: Exotic Pets (2026)

14, KEEPING CERTAIN ANIMALS PROHIBITED, opens by barring anyone from letting a stable or animal-keeping area become unclean or unwholesome, then names the animals residents may never keep in the village: live snakes, large cats, swine or pigs, poultry other than licensed chickens, other fowl, cattle and goats. The section closes that list with a catch-all: no animal may be maintained in the village for any purpose other than as an ordinary pet, except animals held in a licensed pet shop or animal hospital. Read together, this bars exotic and wild species, snakes, big cats, livestock, most poultry, from being kept as household pets anywhere in Tinley Park, regardless of enclosure or containment, because the prohibition is not conditioned on how the animal is housed.

14(C) separately bars keeping bees, wasps or hornets. Those are narrower permit or prohibition schemes, not exceptions to the wild-animal ban itself. 14(A) is a flat keeping prohibition rather than a discretionary permit, a resident cannot apply to the village for a variance to keep a python, a bobcat or a pig as a pet; the only lawful path for such animals in the village is a licensed pet shop or animal hospital.