Schaumburg, IL Public Conduct: Public Alcohol Use (2026)
Key Facts
- Governing section
- Village Code § 112.02
- Public drinking ban
- On any public way or vehicle
- Vehicle transport rule
- Original sealed or resealed package only
- Definitions source
- Illinois Liquor Control Act, 235 ILCS 5/1-1
- Legal basis
- Village home rule, Ill. Const. Art. VII
- Max general penalty
- $50,000.00 per day
Summary
Schaumburg bans drinking alcohol on any public way or in a vehicle on a public way under section 112.02. Transporting liquor in a car on a public street is also unlawful unless it stays in its original sealed package or a properly resealed one.
(A)It shall be unlawful for any person to drink any alcoholic liquor as defined by law on any public way or in or about any motor vehicle upon a public way in the village.(B)It shall be unlawful for any person to transport, carry, possess or have any alcoholic liquor in or upon or about any motor vehicle upon any public way in the village except in the original package and with the seal unbroken or in a resealed package as authorized by the State of Illinois.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 56 Update 1 | Policy Manual: Supplement 20).
Full Breakdown
02(A) of the Village Code makes it unlawful for any person to drink any alcoholic liquor, as defined by state law, on a public way or in or about a motor vehicle on a public way in the village. 02(B) separately bans transporting, carrying, possessing, or having any alcoholic liquor in, upon, or about a motor vehicle on a public way unless it is in the original package with the seal unbroken, or in a package resealed as authorized by the State of Illinois, tracking Illinois's open-container standard for vehicles.
01's food-court definition. , so terms like alcoholic liquor draw on state law even though the drinking ban itself is a home-rule village ordinance. 02 that the entire Code, including chapter 112, is passed under Schaumburg's home rule authority and is to be construed to the maximum extent the Illinois Constitution of 1970 allows.
Violations & Fines
Drinking alcohol on a Schaumburg public way, or in a vehicle on a public way, violates section 112.02(A); carrying an open or improperly resealed container of liquor in a vehicle on a public way violates section 112.02(B). Chapter 112's dedicated penalty section, 112.99, governs liquor licensee violations through the local liquor control commissioner, but a public drinking or open-container violation by an individual falls to the Code's general penalty in section 10.99: a fine of $100.00 to $50,000.00, with each day of a continuing violation charged separately.
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