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Helpful Local Resources

Half of what arrives on the phone here is really a question for somebody else’s desk — a code edition, a published fee, a disposal rule, a locate, or simply which of the two counties an address answers to. Below are the offices that actually hold those answers, each with the reason you would pick up the phone to it.

• Village of Orland ParkWaste Management and the curbside program, the permit pages, the demolition checklist, and the “Dumpsters and Storage Pods” page that says permits are not required — and then sets four rules.
• Orland Park Village CodeTitle 4 Chapter 12 on refuse collection, and the obstruction provisions that govern public streets, parkways and sidewalks.
• Cook CountyThe demolition permit, the asbestos abatement permit that reaches single-family homes, the 70% demolition debris diversion ordinance, and the county solid waste plan.
• Will CountyThe other county this village sits in, and the one our own yard is in. Its demolition and asbestos requirements are its own — ask them, not us.
• Orland Fire Protection DistrictA separate government spanning both counties, and the people who will actually look at a container standing tight against a commercial building.
• Orland TownshipA different government from the Village, with a different boundary — health, senior, youth and assessor services, and no waste role.
• Road District of Orland TownshipOne of only two permanent Cook County electronics drop-offs, open forty hours a week.
• Illinois EPAThe Bureau of Land permits Illinois landfills, and the Agency runs asbestos NESHAP — which exempts four units and under, where Cook County does not.
• Illinois General AssemblyWhere the six landfill bans live, and 65 ILCS 5/11-19-1 — the sentence that stops a village franchising your remodel away.
• Illinois Capital Development BoardIllinois has no mandatory statewide building code for private construction; the Board’s codes reach state-owned buildings.
• Illinois State Fire MarshalThe state rule adopts NFPA 101 — but Orland Park adopts its own fire code, which is why the Fire District is the desk to call.
• IDOTSome of the biggest roads here are the State’s, not the Village’s — and the Village says State and County work is out of its jurisdiction.
• JULIE / Illinois 811Two working days before you dig, a ticket good for twenty-five days, an eighteen-inch tolerance zone — and here the white paint is the law.
• National Weather Service ChicagoThe Romeoville office covers both our counties — and it is the office that writes “Orland Park (small part)” into its Northern Will County zone.
• Illinois State Geological SurveyThe Valparaiso Morainic System and the clay-rich Wadsworth Formation — the reason plywood goes down under every container here.
• MWRDThe Cal-Sag Channel watershed, which most of this service area drains into.
• Forest Preserves of Cook CountyOrland Grassland and the Tinley Creek preserves — 750-plus acres of prairie that break the street grid on the village’s west and south sides.
• MetraThe SouthWest Service line, and the three stations inside this one village.
• US EPAWhere a pre-1978 lead renovation certification is actually issued, because Illinois never took the RRP program over.
• US Census QuickFactsPopulation, tenure and household figures for the village and for both counties.