Waukegan, IL Home Business: Customer Traffic Restrictions (2026)

21 governs every home-based business operated out of a Waukegan dwelling, and subsection h sets the customer-traffic ceiling directly: no more than one visitor, defined broadly to include a client, customer, or pupil, may be on the premises at any single moment. only, cutting off customer traffic well before or after those hours even if the operator is still working inside. Subsection c bars any change to the residential character of the dwelling or neighborhood, subsection j prohibits outdoor business operations including storage, and subsection k requires that any parking generated by clients be absorbed within the home's existing driveway or garage rather than spilling onto the street.

Subsection f requires the business operator to actually live in the dwelling, and subsection g caps outside staff at one non-resident employee, so a home business cannot function as a walk-in storefront with rotating staff and steady foot traffic. Delivery traffic is separately restricted under subsection l to carriers that already service residential neighborhoods, such as USPS, UPS, FedEx, or Amazon; freight and wholesale deliveries are not allowed at all. Every home-based business is also subject to the City's business licensing and inspection program under subsection b, which the Chapter 14 fee schedule (Sec. 00 for a non-day-care home occupation license. 10.