Tinley Park, IL Noise Ordinances: Construction Hours (2026)

Section 98.02(M) of the Tinley Park Village Code declares it a nuisance to run loud building operations, meaning construction, repair, reconstruction, or maintenance, or property maintenance work such as landscaping, using equipment like steam shovels, pneumatic hammers, steam electric hoists, tractors, or power lawnmowers, during set night-time hours. Where the majority of buildings within a 300-foot radius are used exclusively for residential purposes, that loud work is barred from 10:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. Where the majority of buildings in that same 300-foot radius are used for something other than residential purposes, the barred window runs from 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. instead, giving commercial and industrial areas a shorter overnight quiet period.

The rule reaches both formal construction and routine property upkeep work like mowing or landscaping maintenance if the equipment involved produces loud or unusual noise, so a contractor and a homeowner running a power mower after 10 p.m. near homes both fall under the same restriction. The section carves out one exception: work undertaken in response to an emergency that poses an immediate threat to the health, safety, or welfare of surrounding residents is not subject to the curfew, so a burst pipe or storm-damage repair at night is not a violation.

This provision sits inside Chapter 98's general nuisance list, § 98.02, alongside other prohibited conditions like obstructing a public way or letting garbage accumulate, and it carries the chapter's general fine rather than a nuisance-specific one.