(A) All businesses located in or operating in the Village shall pay a business license fee to the Village in accordance with this chapter. License fees payable to the Village shall be collected by the Director of Finance. License fees under the terms of this chapter, for businesses, occupations, activities and uses set forth, shall be as provided herein. Any business located in or operating in the Village included in this section, but which the Village is preempted from regulating under the Illinois Professional Regulation Acts (225 ILCS) or under any other applicable regulatory or licensing state or federal laws, shall be subject to a comparable certificate fee as outlined in § 110.18 of this Code.
(B) License fees shall be paid annually unless otherwise provided, and proof of any bond or liability insurance policy required by this chapter shall be provided with the license fee.
(1) General business.
(a) Type “A” $200;
(b) Type “B” $100;
(c) Type "C" $100.
(2) Industrial establishment.
Floor Area in Square Feet
0 - 10,000 $250
10,001 - 20,000 $300
20,001 - 30,000 $400
30,001 - 40,000 $500
40,001 - 50,000 $550
50,001 - 75,000 $600
75,001 - 100,000 $700
100,001 - 200,000 $800
200,001 - or over $850
(3) Business occupation or trade.
Business Occupation or Trade | Annual License Fee ($) |
Ambulance service | 100 |
Ambulatory surgical centers | 2,000 |
Amusement (not otherwise licensed) | 100 per day |
Amusement-arcade (10 or more automatic devices) | 1,000 plus device fees |
Amusement devices (pool tables, skill games, shuffleboard, darts, and the like) | 100 each |
Amusement operators (distributors, placing, leasing or selling) | 200 |
Amusement park | 500 plus ride and day |
Amusement park daily fee | 25 each day open |
Amusement park rides | 70 each |
Art supply store | 140 |
Auctioneer | 140 |
Auto car wash | 140 |
Auto car wash - self service | 140 |
Auto car waxing | 140 |
Automobile dealer (new and used vehicles) | 800 |
Automobile dealer (new vehicles only) | 280 |
Automobile dealer (used vehicles only) | 800 |
Automobile towing or wreckers | 200 plus copy of insurance |
Auto repair or vehicle customizing shop | 140 |
Auto supply store | 140 |
Bakery | 140 |
Bakery truck | 49 |
Bank: Commercial Savings and Loan | 420 280 |
Barber shop | 100 |
Battery supply and rebuild shop | 100 |
Beverage stand | 100 |
Billiards, pool hall | 280 |
Billboards | 140 each |
Boiler operator | 100 |
Book operator | 140 |
Book store | 140 |
Bottler: 1-10 employees 11-25 employees 26-50 employees 51-75 employees 76-100 employees 101 and over | 35 70 105 140 280 420 |
Bowling alley | 280 each lane |
Building contractor, general | 100 |
Burglar alarm installer | 100 |
Camping equipment and/or military surplus store | 100 |
Candy wholesale | 140 |
Carnival or circus | 280 per day |
Carpentry contractor | 100 plus copy of insurance |
Carpet sales | 140 |
Carry-out food | 140 |
Catch basin cleaners | 200 |
Cement contractor | 100 plus copy of insurance |
Ceramic studio | 140 |
Christmas trees | 140 |
Cigarettes/tobacco dealer | 140 |
Clothing store | 140 |
Coal or wood (out of town) | 100 |
Coin operated amusement device | 140 |
Community mental health independent living center | 490 |
Concert or theatrical | 7 per performance |
Concrete ready-mix trucks (out of town) | 100 |
Confectionery store | 140 |
Convalescent homes | 10 per bed |
Currency store | 280 |
Dances: Public Single | 280 7 |
Dance studio | 100 |
Drain layer | 100 plus copy of insuranc e |
Driving instruction | 100 |
Dry cleaner | 140 |
Dry cleaner, self-service | 140 |
Dry cleaning plant | 210 |
Electrical contractor | 100 plus copy of insurance |
Excavation contractor | 100 plus copy of insurance |
Explosive storage and handling | 2,000 plus copy of insurance |
Exterminator | 100 |
Fence contractor | 100 plus copy of insurance |
Fire alarm, etc. repair and service | 100 |
Fish market | 100 |
Flea market operator (permit) | 1,400 |
Florist | 140 |
Food dispenser (light lunches only) | 100 |
Foresters and landscapers | 140 |
Fraternal and service clubs, having their own building | 100 plus liquor fee |
Fuel dealer | 140 |
Furniture delivery | 100 |
Games of skill | 100 each |
General contractor | 100 |
Glazing | 100 plus copy of insurance |
Grocer: 1-3,000 sq. ft. 3,001-6,000 sq. ft. Over 6,000 sq. ft. | 100 140 280 |
Heating, ventilating, air conditioning, refrigeration | 100 plus copy of insurance |
House and building wrecker | 200 plus copy of insurance |
House mover | 100 plus copy of insurance |
Itinerant vendor | 100 |
Junk dealer | 490 |
Junk peddler | 140 |
Junk yard or scrap iron dealer | 490 plus copy of insurance |
Landscaping contractors | 100 plus copy of insurance |
Lathing and plastering | 100 plus copy of insurance |
Laundromat (self-service) | 154 |
Laundry | 140 |
Laundry vehicle (out of town) | 100 each |
Limousine service | 100 per vehicle |
Liquor distributor | 125 |
Live entertainment: - Single event license (max. of 2 per year) - Up to 10 events per year - Up to the maximum allowed 20 events per year | 200 500 1,000 |
Livery and garage (public) | 100 |
Locksmith | 100 |
Lumber yard retail/wholesale | 280 |
Masonry contractor | 70 plus copy of insurance |
Medical supply company (including dental and veterinarian supply) | 140 |
Milk products | 100 |
Milk refrigerators (not in groceries) | 100 |
Milk truck | 100 |
Mirror or glass installation | 100 |
Mobile catering vehicles | 200 per vehicle |
Mobile food dispenser vehicles: First vehicle Each additional vehicle | 140 35 |
Mortician (temporary license) | 14 (one day) |
Motel or hotel | 28 per room |
Motor vehicle | see automobile dealer |
Movers and delivery service | 100 |
Music studio | 100 |
Newspaper agency | 105 |
Nursery school | 140 |
Office machine and products | 140 |
Painter and decorator | 100 plus copy of insurance |
Parking lots | 140 |
Paving contractor | 100 plus copy of insurance |
Pawnbrokers | 700 |
Peddler | 210 |
Pet grooming | 100 |
Pet store | 100 |
Pharmacy/drug store | 140 |
Photographer | 100 |
Plaster/lather contractor | 100 |
Printer: Under 6,000 sq. ft. 6,000 sq. ft. and over | 140 280 |
Produce truck | 100 |
Produce market | 140 |
Record shop | 100 |
Restaurant: 1-15 seats 16-100 seats Over 100 seats | 140 140 plus 2 per seat for each seat in excess of 15 seats 280 plus 1 per seat for each seat in excess of 100 seats |
Retail store (combined hardware and paint store) | 175 |
Roller and ice rinks | 400 plus commodities |
Rooming house | 280 plus 20 per room |
Sale of items designed or marketed for use with illegal cannabis or drugs | 490 |
Scavenger (waste disposal) | 700 plus copy of insurance |
Scavenger (hazardous materials) | 2,100 plus copy of insurance |
Scavenger (waste processing) | 700 plus copy of insurance |
Secondhand store or dealer | 420 |
Service station (motor vehicle - gasoline) | 280 plus 10 per gasoline pump over 5 pumps |
Sewer and catch basin cleaners | 100 plus copy of insurance |
Sewer contractor | 100 plus copy of insurance |
Sheet metal contractor | 100 plus copy of insurance |
Shoe repair | 100 |
Sign erector | 100 plus copy of insurance |
Smoking lounge | 500 |
Structural iron contractor | 100 plus copy of insurance |
Taxicabs | 100 plus copy of insurance |
Telemarketing | 7 per phone |
Television and radio repair/dealer, CB store | 100 |
Theater | 1,120 |
Tile contractor | 100 plus copy of insurance |
Tire repair service | 100 |
Tobacco shop | 500 |
Tree trimming company | 100 plus copy of insurance |
Truck/trailer rental | 100 plus copy of insurance |
Tuckpointing contractor | 100 plus copy of insurance |
Undertaker | 210 |
Upholstery | 100 |
Vacation Rental First Year Renewals | 500 250 |
Vending Machine: Candy Cigarettes Coffee Gum ball Ice Juke box Milk Pastry Sandwich Soap Soda Trinkets | 35 140 35 7 35 105 35 35 35 35 35 35 |
Video gaming terminals First terminal Each additional terminal | 500 250 |
Video tape rentals: Primary business Ancillary business | 140 70 |
Waste disposal for commercial and industrial establishments | 1,400 plus copy of insurance |
Weapons sale | 700 plus copy of insurance |
Weighmasters | 100 |
Window manufacturing establishment | 175 |
Wrecking contractor | 100 plus copy of insurance |
(C) In the event that a license is not renewed at or prior to the expiration of the preceding license period, then the license fee to be paid by the licensee shall be 150% of the applicable license fee set forth in this section.
(1997 Code, § 31.13) (Ord. 77-9, passed 7-9- 1977; Am. Ord. 87-2, passed 1-8-1987; Am. Ord. CO-00-23, passed 12-4-2000; Am. Ord. CO-04- 31, passed 9-20-2004; Am. Res. R-2013-08, passed 3-13-2013; Am. Ord. CO-2013-37, passed 6-4-2013; Am. Ord. CO-2015-22, passed 8-3-2015; Am. Ord. CO-2019-26, passed 8-20- 2019; Am. Ord. CO-2022-22, passed 11-1-2022; Am. Ord. CO-2023-36, passed 6-20-2023)