Will County, IL Noise Ordinances: Construction Hours (2026)
Construction hours in Will County, IL, sometimes called construction noise rules or contractor work-hour ordinances, set when contractors can run power tools, hammers, and heavy equipment.
Key Facts
- Residential curfew
- 10 p.m. to 7 a.m.
- Construction trades
- fully exempt from curfew
- Amplified sound limit
- barred beyond 75 feet
- Fine
- $150 to $500 per § 133.99(D)
- Coverage
- unincorporated Will County only
- Not exempt
- routine landscaping maintenance
Summary
Unincorporated Will County bars amplified sound audible 75 feet beyond a property line and bars all regulated noise in residential areas between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. under Code § 133.04. Construction trades work, defined to include construction, repair and maintenance of structures and landscaping construction, is written entirely out of both bans, so contractors face no fixed curfew under this section.
§ 133.04 NOISE RESTRICTIONS IN RESIDENTIAL AREAS.
(A) Definitions... CONSTRUCTION TRADES. Any type of home repair, including but not limited to construction, repair, and/or maintenance of a new or existing structure and its appurtenances. This shall also cover landscaping construction but not landscaping maintenance. ... (C) In all residential districts, and all business districts immediately adjacent to residential districts, within unincorporated Will County, no noise as defined may be emitted from a property between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. (D) Exceptions. The provisions of this section shall not apply to: (1) Construction trades as defined herein.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: 2025 S-25: Supplement contains: Local legislation current through Ordinance No. 24-100, passed 4-18-2024 and Res. 23-387, passed 11-16-2023; and State legislation approved through 2024 Pamphlet #2).
Full Breakdown
04 regulates noise in residential districts and in business districts immediately adjacent to them. Division (B) bars any electronically amplified sound audible 75 feet beyond the property line where it originates. m. " The ordinance defines CONSTRUCTION TRADES broadly: any home repair, including construction, repair or maintenance of a new or existing structure and its appurtenances, plus landscaping construction (landscaping maintenance is not covered). curfew in (C); the section itself sets no separate start or stop time for construction noise. The other exceptions in the same division cover emergency-related sound, county-approved athletic events, interior worship-service sound, and farm tractors or implements of husbandry under the Illinois Vehicle Code operating in agricultural activity.
The section traces to Ordinance 11-287, passed August 18, 2011, and applies only in unincorporated Will County; Joliet, Bolingbrook, Romeoville, Plainfield, Lockport, New Lenox, Mokena and Frankfort set their own noise rules. 04 gives construction activity no fixed hours it can violate.
Violations & Fines
A violation of § 133.04 is punishable under § 133.99(D): a fine of not less than $150 and not more than $500 per offense. Because construction trades are excepted from divisions (B) and (C), a contractor working at 2 a.m. is not, by itself, a violation of this section; the fine applies to non-exempt noise, such as amplified sound or mechanical-equipment noise from other sources heard 75 feet beyond the property line during the 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. window.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can contractors run equipment before 7 a.m. in unincorporated Will County?
Does the construction exemption cover landscaping?
What is the fine for violating the Will County noise ordinance?
Sources & Official References
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