Waukegan, IL Public Conduct: Skateboarding Rules (2026)

The prohibition is a strict, no-exceptions zone ban: it does not carve out any time-of-day or business-hours allowance, and it applies to sidewalks as well as streets throughout the mapped district. The Downtown Business District boundary is fixed by the ordinance itself, running along Grand Avenue on the north, south to Belvidere Road, and from West Street east to the Lake Michigan shoreline, so the restriction covers the core commercial blocks around the lakefront rather than the whole city. Waukegan first adopted the ban through Ordinance No.

96-O-89 on June 17, 1996, and it has stood as its own section, 15-22, within Chapter 15's offenses article ever since. Because the section carries no penalty of its own, a citation defaults to the Code's general penalty in Sec. 00, with each day of a continuing violation charged as a separate offense, and a hearing officer may substitute reasonable public service work such as picking up litter in public parks or maintaining public facilities in place of some or all of the fine. Skateboarding elsewhere in Waukegan is not restricted by this chapter.