Property Maintenance in Illinois (2026)

Aurora, Illinois bars landlords from letting rental housing decay into a health or safety hazard through gross neglect…

Tinley Park declares any dangerous or abandoned building a nuisance and bans maintaining or occupying it in that…

Arlington Heights treats any commercial building left unoccupied 60 days or more as a vacant building under Section…

Bolingbrook's property maintenance code lets the code official order occupants out of a building in imminent danger of…

Champaign Municipal Code Sec. 22-301.3 requires every vacant structure and vacant lot to be kept clean, safe, secure…

Chicago can order owners to demolish, repair, or enclose dangerous, unsafe, or abandoned buildings or face daily fines…

Cicero's vacant building ordinance requires owners and mortgagees to register vacant or foreclosing property with the…

Buildings with imminently hazardous code violations, or vacant structures left open after a securing order, are…

The Building Official can declare a DuPage County structure unfit for human occupancy over unsanitary conditions…

Elgin's Vacant Residential Buildings ordinance forces owners of empty homes to register with the neighborhood services…

Evanston can declare a building a public nuisance and order it closed, secured, repaired, vacated, or demolished if…

Joliet can declare a property 'blighted' under City Code Section 20-5 when it meets any two of five listed factors…

In unincorporated Kankakee County, any building or wall that is unsafe, fire-prone or structurally dangerous is…

In unincorporated Lake County, a building, mobile home, shed, fence, or other structure that is hazardous to public…

Macon County Code § 90.19 bars owners from letting any structure or premises in the unincorporated area become unfit…

Unincorporated McHenry County's amended building code lets the building official declare any structure or piece of…

Naperville enforces the 2024 International Property Maintenance Code against substandard and dangerous structures…

Oak Lawn declares any dangerous or abandoned building a nuisance and orders the owner to repair or demolish it within…

The Village of Oak Park registers and regulates vacant buildings as public nuisances under its Vacant Buildings…

Peoria makes it unlawful to keep or maintain any building in an unsafe or dangerous condition under Article IX of the…

When a structure in unincorporated Peoria County is so dilapidated, dangerous, unsafe, or unfit for occupancy that…

Rockford's code official can declare a deteriorated structure a "dangerous building" or public nuisance and pursue…

Sangamon County can order a dangerous building demolished, repaired or enclosed in the unincorporated area, or on a…

Owners of vacant or abandoned buildings in Schaumburg must register with the finance department's water billing…

Skokie's vacant building ordinance makes the owner of any nonresidential building that sits empty responsible for…

Springfield's Department of Building and Zoning may order demolition of any building meeting the dangerous-building…

Unincorporated St. Clair County treats a vacant, unsafe or dangerous structure as a blight nuisance under Property…

The county condemns and placards as unfit for habitation any dwelling so damaged, unsanitary, or vermin-infested that…

Waukegan's building department can demolish or repair dangerous, unsafe, uncompleted or abandoned buildings anywhere in…

Winnebago County declares a housing unit "substandard" under Code Sec. 18-236 whenever it has any of thirteen listed…

Champaign County's Public Nuisance Ordinance makes five types of dangerous structures a public nuisance across the…

In unincorporated Kane County, storing junk, trash or refuse on property is a declared nuisance, and owners of vacant…

Unincorporated Kendall County enforces substandard-building and blight conditions through the 2024 International…

Rock Island County makes it unlawful under § 90.01 to cause, permit, or maintain a nuisance on any property in the…

Will County Code Enforcement Officers must give property owners at least 30 days' written notice under the IPMC's…

Cook County enforces vacant lot maintenance in unincorporated areas. The Vacant Building Ordinance imposes fines of…

Peoria publishes a springtime newspaper notice warning vacant-lot owners that weeds over ten inches, litter, or motor…

Aurora publishes an annual May notice warning vacant-lot and unoccupied-property owners that weeds over 8 inches will…

Owners of vacant lots in Champaign County must keep them clear of overgrowth, weeds and dumped debris. Illinois law…

Chicago caps weeds on any owned or controlled property, including vacant lots, at an average height of 10 inches, with…

Cicero requires owners of every open lot to keep it free of garbage, ashes, refuse and any material that can spread…

If an unincorporated DuPage County property owner won't clear garbage or refuse from their land, the county can remove…

After a building comes down, Elgin requires the vacant lot filled with clean fill to within 4 inches of finished grade…

Every vacant lot in Evanston must be filled, graded, and seeded or sodded under City Code § 4-2-2, Evanston's local…

Joliet's nuisance code treats an unmaintained or vacant lot as a public nuisance under § 20-3, and separately bans…

Empty and unimproved parcels in unincorporated Kane County still have to stay under twelve inches of grass and clear of…

Lake County code caps grass and weeds at ten inches on any property inside a platted subdivision, vacant lots included…

Unincorporated McHenry County law makes it a public health nuisance to let noxious weeds stand within 150 feet of any…

Naperville requires owners of vacant residential lots to grade for drainage and establish turf within one year of…

Oak Lawn caps weeds on any real estate, including vacant lots, at four inches and lets the Village cut, bill, and lien…

Owners of vacant and unimproved property in the Village of Oak Park must keep weeds, including grass, cut to under 8…

Vacant lot owners in Peoria County must control weeds and overgrowth and keep the parcel clear of dumped debris…

Owners of unincorporated Rock Island County parcels of five acres or less must keep weeds cut, whether the lot is…

Schaumburg bans dumping or throwing litter on any open or vacant private lot under Village Code § 94.06, whether or not…

The Village of Skokie's Property Maintenance Code, not just the general nuisance chapter, separately reaches weeds on…

Vacant lots and lots with an unoccupied structure in Springfield get a different weed notice than occupied properties…

Vacant land and structures in unincorporated St. Clair County must be kept clean, safe, secure and sanitary so they…

Tazewell County caps weeds, plants and grass at 10 inches on residentially zoned parcels of one acre or less. The…

When an owner ignores a weed or tall grass notice, Tinley Park's Director of Public Works can enter the land directly…

Waukegan requires owners of vacant lots left after a demolition to remove all foundations, fill and grade the lot, and…

In unincorporated Will County, premises and exterior property must be kept free of weeds and plant growth taller than…

The Illinois Snow and Ice Removal Act shields residential property owners from liability for natural accumulations…

Aurora, Illinois (Kane County) gives property owners in its designated downtown zone 48 hours after a snowfall or ice…

In Champaign's University District and Downtown Business District, owners must clear snow, ice, sleet, or freezing rain…

Chicago property owners must clear a 5-foot sidewalk path within hours of snowfall or face fines up to $500 a day.

Cicero property owners and occupants must keep the sidewalk next to their property clear of snow, ice, dirt and other…

Property owners, landlords, and occupants must clear a 36-inch path of snow and ice from abutting sidewalks within 24…

Naperville property owners abutting a public sidewalk must clear snow and ice within 48 hours of the weather event…

Oak Lawn requires business and rental-dwelling sidewalks cleared of snow and ice by 10:00 a.m. the day after it falls…

Owners, occupants and lessees in Oak Park must clear snow and ice from the public sidewalk fronting their property…

Peoria requires commercial property owners, plus schools, hospitals and churches, to clear snow from the abutting…

Rockford requires owners of publicly-invited premises to clear sidewalk snow and ice by noon the day after it stops…

Village of Skokie Code requires anyone in control of business-zoned property fronting a paved sidewalk to clear snow…

Springfield property owners and occupants must clear the sidewalk in front of their premises by 10:00 a.m. every…