Kankakee County, IL Code Violation Reporting: Common Violations (2026)

Section 22-24, titled "Enumeration," opens by defining a health nuisance broadly as "any act, omission to act, or condition on any real property which injures or threatens the health or safety of one or more persons," then lists 16 specific conditions the county treats as covered but not limited to. " Item (12) separately reaches a "failure to secure areas, buildings, equipment, or places against unauthorized access where such access threatens the safety of individuals," covering things like an open foundation, unlocked vacant structure or unfenced excavation.

Other items on the same list cover polluted watercourses, obstructed roads, noxious trades, fire hazards from stored flammable materials, unlawful disposal of dead animals, exposure of people to communicable disease, attractive nuisances such as abandoned wells and unsecured refrigerators, and billboards, signs, bushes or fences that obstruct sight lines at a road, railroad or street railway crossing. Every item is enforced the same way: the health authority investigates on complaint or its own initiative under Section 22-25, inspects under Section 22-26, serves an abatement notice with an appeal right under Section 22-27, and can prosecute noncompliance as a class B misdemeanor under Section 22-28, with each day a separate offense.