Skip to main content
CityRuleLookup

Hotels & Lodging in Joliet, IL (2026)

1 verified hotels & lodging rules for Joliet, Illinois, sourced directly from the municipal code and official government pages.

Verified from official government sources

Transient Occupancy Tax

Joliet imposes a 10 percent Hotel and Motel Accommodations Tax on the gross rent charged for renting a hotel room in the city for each 24-hour period. Lessors, including online travel companies acting as facilitators, must collect the tax from guests and remit it to the finance director quarterly.

Joliet Hotel Accommodations Tax Rate

Some Restrictions

Joliet, IL Code of Ordinances § 28-82

(a)There is levied and imposed a tax of ten (10) percent of the gross rent charged for the privilege and use of renting a hotel room within the city for each twenty-four-hour period or any portion thereof for which a room charge is made.(b)It shall be the duty of every lessor of every hotel within the city to collect the tax from the lessee at the time the lessee pays for the privilege of occup...

Looking for Will County county-wide rules?

County ordinances apply to unincorporated areas and may supplement Joliet city rules.

Hotels & Lodging in Will County