Public Conduct in Illinois (2026)

Joliet makes it disorderly conduct to 'go about begging or soliciting funds on the public ways,' under City Code…

Lake County prohibits soliciting alms, commercial vending, and debt collection on county-controlled buildings and…

Waukegan makes aggressive panhandling a separate offense under City Code Secs. 15-129 and 15-130. The ordinance defines…

Evanston bans panhandling or soliciting "in an aggressive manner" under City Code Section 9-5-25(C), defining eight…

Naperville bans begging or soliciting funds on any public way as disorderly conduct, unless allowed by city ordinance…

Oak Lawn bans aggressive panhandling, panhandling after sunset or before sunrise, and physically approaching people to…

Rockford bans panhandling after dark, near banks/ATMs, churches and senior facilities, and any panhandling done…

Springfield prohibits aggressive solicitation, defined as touching, blocking, following, or cursing at someone who's…

Village Code Sec. 78-3 makes it unlawful to engage in aggressive solicitation in Skokie: intentionally touching the…

Urinating or defecating on the public way or any outdoor public or private property is banned citywide, with fines up…

Rockford makes it unlawful to urinate or defecate on any street, alley, sidewalk, parkway, public parking lot, or other…

Aurora makes it a misdemeanor to urinate or defecate in public view or in any public street, sidewalk, park, building…

Champaign Code § 23-112 makes it illegal to urinate or defecate on any street, alley, sidewalk, parking lot or floor of…

The Town of Cicero folds urination and defecation in public into its general indecency ordinance. Section 62-14 makes…

Cook County Code § 58-43 fines anyone $100 for urinating or defecating on the public way, or on any outdoor public or…

Elgin's public indecency chapter makes it unlawful to urinate or defecate in a public place or within public view…

Urinating or defecating on an Evanston street, sidewalk, park, or other public place -- or anywhere in public view…

Naperville Municipal Code Section 10-2-1-5, item 3, bars urinating or defecating anywhere in public other than a…

Peoria's indecency ordinance, Code Sec. 20-121, makes it unlawful to urinate or defecate in a public place outside a…

Rock Island County bans urinating or spitting inside county mass-transit facilities and vehicles, folding it into a…

Springfield's disorderly conduct ordinance makes it a fineable offense to urinate or defecate on any public street…

Tinley Park bans urinating or defecating in public view or on streets, sidewalks, parks and other public places under…

Aurora, Illinois (Kane County) bans skateboarding on any public street citywide, and separately bars it on Downtown…

Cicero outlaws operating a motorized skateboard, scooter or similar toy vehicle on any public street, alley, sidewalk…

Joliet Code Sec. 21-17.1 flatly bans skateboarding on any highway, street, roadway or alley in the city. The rule…

Peoria County bans skateboarding anywhere on the courthouse grounds. Section 7.3-27(c) of the county code stops anyone…

Champaign City Code Section 33-26 bans skateboards, along with bikes, skates, scooters and every other wheeled device…

Chicago bars skateboarding on any business street or its sidewalk, and requires skaters elsewhere to yield to…

Elgin outright bans riding a skateboard anywhere inside its mapped central business district, a downtown zone running…

Skateboard riding is flatly banned on Madison County-owned property and inside county buildings under Code Section…

Naperville bans skateboards, roller skates, and in-line skates on sidewalks and public ways in the downtown business…

Oak Park bans skateboarding and rollerskating outright in business and commercial districts and on Village property…

Rockford bans skateboarding and roller-skating on sidewalks in business districts and along through streets, and keeps…

Riding a skateboard or other human-powered vehicle on any public sidewalk, plaza, parking lot, or parking ramp in…

Tazewell County bans operating a skateboard or any other wheeled vehicle in county-owned buildings or on the…

Village Code § 133.04(B)(3) bans operating a bicycle, skateboard, scooter, electric scooter, roller skates or any…

Waukegan bans riding or using a skateboard on every street and sidewalk inside the Downtown Business District under…

Arlington Heights bars skateboarding and roller-skating inside its Village-owned parking garages and lots. Section…

Evanston City Code Section 7-10-3(C) bars skateboards from every tennis court and basketball court the City operates…

Peoria bans skateboarding on any roadway except at crosswalks, and bans it entirely on sidewalks and public areas…

Skokie bans skateboards, roller skates, in-line skates, scooters and similar devices from village roadways entirely…

Schaumburg lets police and property owners post 'no skateboarding/skating' signs anywhere in the village, and once…

Aurora, Illinois (Kane County) makes a loud or unruly gathering a public nuisance, letting police order it to disperse…

A Bolingbrook resident who knowingly lets an invitee under 21 possess or drink alcohol in the home, or on any land or…

Champaign's nuisance party ordinance holds hosts, tenants and property owners liable when a social gathering becomes a…

Elgin's social hosting law fines anyone who hosts a gathering at a home, business or private property $500 or more per…

Two noise citations at the same Evanston address within twelve months lets the City declare the property a "nuisance…

Peoria treats a party of ten or more as a 'nuisance gathering' once two of fifteen listed offenses occur, from underage…

Waukegan Code § 3-50 makes it unlawful to host, permit, or fail to stop a gathering of three or more people at any…

Cook County fines anyone who owns, rents, or controls a building $100 a day when a party's boisterous noise disturbs…

In unincorporated DuPage County, the property occupant who knowingly allows a loud party or noisy gathering is on the…

Lake County declares underage drinking and drug parties a nuisance; anyone who knowingly hosts or permits alcohol or…

Oak Lawn makes it a nuisance for anyone owning or controlling a building to host or allow a gathering whose noise or…

Winnebago County bans amplified sound and instrument noise audible beyond 100 feet overnight in unincorporated areas…

Arlington Heights, Illinois bans loitering that blocks narrow public crosswalks under Village Code Section 8-523, and…

Chicago police can order groups loitering with a gang member in designated hot-spot areas to disperse, and arrest…

Peoria's Sec. 20-220 lets police order suspected gang members to disperse from designated hot-spot areas; disobeying…

Waukegan makes it unlawful to loiter in public with the purpose of engaging in drug activity, and lets officers weigh…

Aurora, Illinois (Kane County) makes it a misdemeanor to keep blocking a street, sidewalk, or public way after a police…

Bolingbrook bans loitering, loafing or standing idle in a public place in a way that blocks streets, sidewalks or…

Champaign bars loitering, loafing or standing idle in any public place when it blocks sidewalks, streets or building…

Cicero prohibits standing idle in one spot on a public street, sidewalk or other public place when doing so blocks the…

Elgin makes it unlawful to stand, stroll or walk in a way that blocks pedestrian or vehicle traffic on public streets…

Evanston bars anyone without school business from loitering, wandering, or trespassing on public school grounds while…

Joliet Code Sec. 21-10 makes it unlawful to loiter in a public place in a way that blocks a street, sidewalk or…

Kane County bans loitering in any public place with the intent to engage in drug activity or prostitution. Sec. 12-47…

Lake County's nuisance ordinance makes it illegal to congregate in front of a business, home, theater, school, or…

Loitering on any McHenry County-controlled building or grounds is illegal under the county's Building Use Ordinance…

Oak Lawn bans loitering that alarms bystanders or disrupts public peace, aggressive or after-dark panhandling, blocking…

In the home-rule Village of Oak Park, Cook County, Illinois, loitering within three blocks of a school building becomes…

Rockford bars loitering or prowling in a manner not usual for law-abiding people when the circumstances would alarm…

Schaumburg bars lounging on a street corner or public place after a police officer orders a person to move on, and…

Skokie treats loitering as one form of disorderly conduct: Village Code Sec. 70-122(5) makes it unlawful to loiter…

Village Code § 133.25(B) makes it disorderly conduct to loiter in or about public parks, buildings, streets, sidewalks…

Kankakee County's liquor code makes it illegal for a licensee to let anyone under 21 or anyone intoxicated loiter on a…

Bolingbrook adopts the Smoke Free Illinois Act by reference and bans smoking in public places and places of employment…

Cicero prohibits smoking cigarettes, cigars, pipes or other tobacco products anywhere in a town public park, including…

Elgin bans smoking, chewing, or otherwise using any tobacco product, including e-cigarettes and vaping devices…

McLean County prohibits smoking anywhere on the sand at F. Russell Glasener Beach, the county park system's only lawful…

Peoria County bans smoking at both public entrances to its courthouse. Section 7.3-27(h) of the county code draws a…

Aurora, Illinois adopts the state's Smoke Free Illinois Act for combustible tobacco and separately bans electronic…

Evanston's Clean Air Act bans smoking on beaches, at playgrounds and tot lots, and at City-licensed sidewalk cafes…

Village Code § 133.04(B)(2) bans smoking, vaping or otherwise ingesting any product that produces visible smoke, vapor…

Smoking is banned in every building, vehicle and piece of equipment the county owns, leases or operates, and in front…

Arlington Heights, Illinois bans smoking within 15 feet of any entrance to a smoke-free enclosed area and within 15…

Chicago's Clean Indoor Air Ordinance reaches outside: the smoke-free "public place" legally includes a 15-foot buffer…

Cook County's Clean Indoor Air Ordinance pushes smoking outdoors 15 feet from any entrance, exit, or operable window of…

Kankakee County bans smoking and e-cigarette use inside all county buildings and vehicles, and within 15 feet of every…

Unincorporated Lake County bars smoking within 20 feet of any public building or workplace's entrance, operable window…

McHenry County bars smoking within 15 feet of any entrance, exit, operable window, or ventilation intake at…

Oak Park bans smoking within 15 feet of the entrance to any public place or place of employment, with an exception for…

Rockford's smoke-free ordinance bans smoking inside public buildings and workplaces and extends that ban outdoors to…

Schaumburg bars smoking or vaping within fifteen feet of any entrance, exit, operable window or air intake serving a…

Skokie's smoking ordinance reaches outdoors: smoking is barred within 15 feet of any entrance, exit, open window or…

Beyond banning smoking inside public places and workplaces, Springfield's Clean Indoor Air Ordinance pushes smokers…

Waukegan adopts the Smoke-Free Illinois Act into its own code, banning smoking within 15 feet of any entrance, exit, or…

Sangamon County bans smoking within ten feet of the entrance to any enclosed public place or workplace it regulates…

Chicago requires pedestrians to use a marked crosswalk when crossing any through street, and lets the city ban…

In Aurora, Illinois (Kane County), City Code § 27-241 bars pedestrians from crossing anywhere but a marked crosswalk…

Evanston pedestrians must cross at right angles or use a crosswalk under two rules in City Code Title 10, Chapter 7…

Rockford requires pedestrians to use marked or unmarked crosswalks in business and industrial districts and bars…

Skokie pedestrians must use a marked crosswalk once the Village posts signs restricting mid-block crossing, and…

Springfield outlaws crossing between intersections except at a marked crosswalk. A separate 2022 ordinance bars sitting…

Tinley Park requires pedestrians to yield to vehicles anytime they cross outside a marked or unmarked intersection…

Waukegan pedestrians who cross a roadway outside a marked or unmarked crosswalk must yield the right-of-way to every…

Peoria's traffic code doesn't ban crossing mid-block outright, but Sec. 28-222 requires any pedestrian crossing outside…

Illinois retains jaywalking enforcement under Vehicle Code 625 ILCS 5/11-1003, requiring pedestrians to yield outside…

Champaign Municipal Code Sec. 10.5-12 flatly bans cannabis use in any public place, on school grounds, in correctional…

Cicero's Code still bans manufacturing, delivering or possessing any quantity of cannabis, a prohibition broad enough…

Joliet bars using cannabis or any cannabis product in any public place, in any motor vehicle, on school grounds, in a…

Waukegan bans using cannabis or any cannabis-infused product in any public place or inside a motor vehicle, on top of…

Aurora, Illinois bars using cannabis, THC products, or cannabis concentrate in any motor vehicle, public place, or…

Using cannabis in any public place in Chicago is a ticketable offense, fined $50 first offense and $100 after that.

Cook County's Clean Indoor Air Ordinance defines "smoking" to include lighted weed, not just tobacco, and bars it in…

Evanston's Clean Air Act bans smoking "weed, plant or other organic substance" intended for smoking, covering cannabis…

Kankakee County imposes its own $200.00 minimum fine for possessing ten grams or less of cannabis anywhere in the…

Lake County's nuisance ordinance still classifies possessing 10 grams or less of cannabis, or paraphernalia held with…

Naperville makes it a municipal offense to possess cannabis without state authorization or to possess any drug…

Oak Park bars consuming cannabis inside any licensed cannabis business establishment or in the parking lot or open area…

Rockford's disorderly conduct ordinance makes it a fineable offense to smoke cannabis in any motor vehicle or any…

Skokie bans consuming cannabis in any form, including by smoking, inside a licensed cannabis dispensary or in the…

Arlington Heights, Illinois bans growing, possessing, or consuming cannabis anywhere in the Village except in…

Using cannabis in any public place in Bolingbrook is a violation under Village Code Sec. 36-553, carrying a $250.00…

Elgin's own cannabis ordinance fines rather than criminally charges anyone caught with 30 grams or less of cannabis who…

Oak Lawn bans using cannabis in any public place, in vehicles, near minors, and near schools, with fines from $100 to…

Springfield prohibits using cannabis in any public place, in a vehicle, on school grounds, or by anyone under 21…

Tinley Park makes unlawful cannabis use, possession, sale or delivery a village offense whenever it is not in…

Aurora, Illinois bans drinking or carrying open alcohol in any public place citywide, including retail stores, unless…

Champaign bans possessing an open container of alcoholic liquor, or drinking it, on any public property or business…

McLean County bans possessing or drinking alcoholic beverages in any county park or recreational area, including…

Oak Lawn bans drinking any alcoholic liquor in public places, streets, alleys, sidewalks and parkways, under Village…

The Village of Oak Park makes it unlawful to drink alcoholic liquor on any public street, parkway or sidewalk under…

Sangamon County bans drinking alcohol anywhere on a public way, streets, alleys, sidewalks or rights-of-way, under its…

Tinley Park bans selling, consuming, or delivering alcoholic liquor on any property controlled by a government body…

Waukegan Code § 3-30 bars anyone from consuming alcoholic liquor in any public place in the city, including retail…

Drinking alcohol on any Chicago public way or in a parked vehicle on one is illegal, with narrow carve-outs for…

Cook County bans drinking alcoholic liquor on any public way in unincorporated areas and Sheriff's Office enforcement…

Open alcohol is banned on every part of DuPage County's trail system, including the Illinois Prairie Path, the DuPage…

Evanston bars drinking or carrying an open container of alcohol in parks, streets, sidewalks, and other public…

Naperville bans drinking alcoholic beverages on any street, highway, or public place, or in or about a vehicle in…

Schaumburg bans drinking alcohol on any public way or in a vehicle on a public way under section 112.02. Transporting…

Village of Skokie ordinance bans open containers and consumption of alcoholic liquor on any Village-owned property or…

Springfield bans both drinking and simply carrying an open container of alcohol on any public street, sidewalk, or…

Unincorporated Will County licensees must keep alcohol consumption inside the establishment: drinking on the public…

Arlington Heights, Illinois bans open alcohol containers on public streets and other public places under Village Code…

Bolingbrook bans drinking or carrying open alcohol on any public street, sidewalk, parking area or other place the…

Cicero bans possessing any open container of alcohol on public property under Sec. 10-22(b), with fines from $25 to…

Elgin bans drinking or holding an open container of alcohol on streets, sidewalks, parks and other public areas, absent…

Joliet bans possessing alcoholic liquor on a public way unless it's in an unbroken original package, under City Code…

Kankakee County bars anyone from drinking alcoholic liquor on any street, alley, sidewalk or other public property in…

Lake County bans public intoxication and drinking alcoholic liquor on any public way as a public nuisance under County…

Madison County bans drinking alcoholic liquor on any public street, sidewalk, alley, or other publicly owned or…

Peoria bars carrying alcohol on a public way unless it's in the original package with an unbroken seal, and bans…

In unincorporated Peoria County, it is unlawful to carry alcoholic liquor away from the licensed bar, tavern or package…

Rock Island County makes it unlawful for anyone under 21 to purchase, accept delivery of, possess, or consume alcoholic…

Rockford prohibits carrying or drinking alcoholic liquor on streets, alleys, city parking lots, and public-carrier…

St. Clair County bans drinking alcoholic liquor on any public street, alley, sidewalk or other public way, and in…

Tazewell County bans drinking alcohol in any public place in the unincorporated county outside premises licensed for…