Bolingbrook, IL Business Licensing & Operations: Adult Entertainment (2026)

Bolingbrook confines adult entertainment businesses to its two industrial zoning districts rather than allowing them in any commercial district. ' That buffer is measured to every one of those protected uses, and it applies to all four categories of adult use identically in I-1. The neighboring I-2 general industrial district, under § 54-143(a)(4), permits the same four categories, but the 1,000-foot spacing requirement is written into only the adult motion picture theater listing, and even there the protected list is narrower, covering schools, day care centers, cemeteries, public parks, public housing, and places of religious worship, without the 'residentially zoned or used property' language that I-1 carries.

Because adult uses sit on the permitted-use list rather than the special-use list in both districts, an operator that meets the spacing requirement and the district's other bulk regulations, such as the 42-foot building height cap in § 54-142(e)(1), does not need a discretionary special use permit; the use is allowed by right once the distance is satisfied. absent board approval of extended hours.