Service area
Where We Deliver — Orland Park, Cook and Will Counties & the south-west suburbs
Seventeen places, delivered from the yard here on 183rd Place — and they are not one county and not one rulebook. They sort into three tiers, and the tier is the answer. Five are in Will County — Mokena, New Lenox, Homer Glen, Frankfort and the City of Lockport — which is the same county our own yard sits in, and the county whose demolition and asbestos requirements we could not establish. Eleven are in suburban Cook County — ten of them wholly, and Tinley Park mostly, with part of it reaching into Will — where the County runs its own demolition permit, its own asbestos permit and a seventy percent diversion mandate, all of them verified and all of them real. And Lemont is in Cook, DuPage and Will at once, which is why it never gets assigned a single county on this site. Every one of the seventeen is an incorporated municipality with a hall of its own, so each carries a page rather than a line in a list.
By locality
Grouped by county, because the county is what changes first
The tiers read straight off this list, and so does the reason we insist on the street address rather than the mailing town. The Village of Orland Park is itself mostly in Cook County and partly in Will, spanning four townships — Orland, Palos and Bremen in Cook, and Frankfort in Will — and our own yard is on the Will County side. Cross that line and what a teardown costs changes by hundreds of dollars, because Cook County has an active, expensive role in demolition and asbestos and Will County’s equivalents are unknown to us. There is a second thing this list will not do. Nothing we read establishes the ordinances, permits, container rules, right-of-way rules, fees or collection programs of any municipality other than the Village of Orland Park — so for the other sixteen we give you county, incorporated status and type, population and straight-line distance, and then the sentence that matters: check with the village or the city. We do not assume Orland Park’s rules travel across a boundary, and five of the sixteen are cities rather than villages — Palos Heights, Palos Hills, Oak Forest, Hickory Hills and Lockport — which locals notice.
Cook County
Cook County, with part in Will
Cook, DuPage and Will Counties
At a glance
Where each one sits, and how we get there
Every distance on this site is straight-line. We do not publish drive times, and the reason is the map: the Forest Preserves of Cook County, the Cal-Sag Channel and the Des Plaines valley all break the street grid here, and a real route can be a good deal longer than a ruler suggests. I-355’s crossing of that valley needed a 1.3-mile bridge that cost $125 million, which is as good an illustration as any of why we write character instead of minutes.
| Village or city | County | From our yard | Main route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mokena | Will County | 2.0 straight-line miles south of the yard, the shortest run on this site | the short run south out of the yard off 183rd Place |
| New Lenox | Will County | 4.5 straight-line miles south-west of the yard, out into growing Will County | the run south-west out of the yard toward the Will County villages |
| Homer Glen | Will County | 4.6 straight-line miles west of the yard, into twenty-two square miles of large lots | the run west out of the yard toward the Will County side |
| Frankfort | Will County | 4.8 straight-line miles south-east of the yard, into a growing Will County village | the run south-east out of the yard across Frankfort Township |
| Lockport | Will County | 8.4 straight-line miles west of the yard, out toward the canal towns | the run west out of the yard, around rather than through the preserve holdings |
| Orland Hills | Cook County | 4.0 straight-line miles north-east of the yard, across the county line into Cook | the run north-east out of the yard and over the county line |
| Tinley Park | Cook County, with part in Will | 6.2 straight-line miles east of the yard, into the largest village on this site | the run east out of the yard toward Bremen Township |
| Oak Forest | Cook County | 8.3 straight-line miles east of the yard, into a compact Cook County city | the run east out of the yard across the Cal-Sag side of the market |
| Palos Park | Cook County | 8.4 straight-line miles north of the yard, up toward the preserve country | the run north out of the yard, around the forest preserve holdings |
| Palos Heights | Cook County | 9.4 straight-line miles north-east of the yard, into a compact Cook County city | the run north-east out of the yard toward the Cal-Sag side |
| Palos Hills | Cook County | 11.0 straight-line miles north of the yard, the third of the three Palos municipalities | the run north out of the yard, around rather than through the preserve holdings |
| Crestwood | Cook County | 10.3 straight-line miles north-east of the yard, down at the Cal-Sag end of Tinley Creek | the run north-east out of the yard toward the channel |
| Midlothian | Cook County | 10.6 straight-line miles east of the yard, into the smallest footprint on the Cook side | the run east out of the yard across the eastern half of the market |
| Worth | Cook County | 10.8 straight-line miles north of the yard, up on the Metra line | the run north out of the yard toward the channel |
| Hickory Hills | Cook County | 11.9 straight-line miles north of the yard, the longest run on the Cook County side | the run north out of the yard, the long way round the preserve holdings |
| Alsip | Cook County | 11.8 straight-line miles north-east of the yard, out at the eastern edge of the market | the run north-east out of the yard toward the channel |
| Lemont | Cook, DuPage and Will Counties | 9.7 straight-line miles north-west of the yard, into three counties at once | the run north-west out of the yard, the long way around the valley |
Local knowledge
Three tiers, and three genuinely different answers
Three tiers, and the tier is the answer
Wherever it can be managed the box goes on your own ground, with plywood under every wheel and rail. It is the moment the job needs a permit, or any part of it touches public ground, that it matters which government you are standing in front of — and in this market that is a county question first. Tier one: the five Will County places. Mokena at 2.0 straight-line miles is the closest place on the board and sits in our own county and our own township; then New Lenox, Homer Glen, Frankfort — the village, which is not Frankfort Township — and the City of Lockport. On every one of those, Cook County’s demolition permit, its asbestos permit and its seventy percent diversion mandate do not apply, and we could not establish what Will County requires instead. That is not a shrug; it is the most useful sentence on the page, because four of our five closest towns are in that county and the alternative is a confident guess. Ring Will County and ask them, not us. Tier two: the eleven in suburban Cook County. Orland Hills — a separate village with its own hall at 16033 South 94th Avenue on (708) 349-6666, incorporated 30 June 1961 and formerly named Westhaven, and not a part of Orland Park — then Tinley Park, Palos Park, Crestwood, Midlothian, Worth and Alsip, plus the cities of Oak Forest, Palos Heights, Palos Hills and Hickory Hills. On all eleven the County layer is verified and worth knowing before anybody swings a hammer: a Cook County demolition permit applied for through the Department of Environment and Sustainability at least ten business days ahead, $300 for the first residential structure and $150 for each additional one, $750 per structure for commercial and for residential buildings of five or more units; a plat of survey signed and sealed by an Illinois surveyor; a registered demolition contractor for anything over 625 square feet; a notarized affidavit as to disconnection of electrical service; and a Demolition Debris Diversion Plan, the County’s ordinance requiring that 70 percent by weight be recycled with residential properties also demonstrating 5 percent by weight diverted for reuse. On top of that sits the asbestos permit — $200, required “for all asbestos projects (residential, commercial, institutional and industrial),” single-family homes included, ten working days ahead — even though Illinois EPA exempts residential buildings of four units or fewer from the federal standard. Every one of those figures is Cook County’s and applies in suburban Cook County only; they are as the County published them when we read its pages, and requirements and fees move, so confirm current ones with the Department of Environment and Sustainability on (312) 603-8200. Tier three: Lemont, which is in Cook, DuPage and Will at the same time, and is the clearest illustration on this site that the county question is a real one rather than a technicality. Across all three tiers one rule does not move: we state no other municipality’s own ordinances, because the research establishes none of them. Give us the address and you will know which county you are in before a truck is loaded.
What the Village does collect, and where the line falls
The case for a container here is not something we invented. It is a description of what the governments above you do and do not do — and everything in this card is the Village of Orland Park’s own program, for Orland Park addresses. The other sixteen places have their own arrangements and we state none of them. One: the Village does collect residential refuse, through a contract, billed like a utility, under Village Code Title 4, Chapter 12. That is worth saying plainly rather than fudging. Two: that service has a published ceiling. It takes “up to three cubic yards of refuse per week” and one bulk item, and the Village defines the term for you: “A bulk item is considered an item the resident would take with them if they moved out of the residence (e.g., couch, small tables, mattress, etc.).” That line does most of the work on this whole site. A sofa moves house with you. Drywall does not. Refuse goes in a 96-gallon cart, with overflow only in bags or containers “no greater than 45-gallon in size” that “do not exceed 50 pounds”; carpet counts as the bulk item and has its own arithmetic, “cut and rolled into 4-foot lengths,” under 50 pounds a roll, up to eight rolls a week. Three cubic yards a week is generous for a household and hopeless for a project: a bathroom gut is three to five cubic yards on its own. Three, and this is the part almost nobody knows: the Village could not extend that service to your remodel even if it wanted to. 65 ILCS 5/11-19-1 provides that a municipality with a population of less than 1,000,000 shall not award a franchise or contract to any private entity for the collection of general construction or demolition debris from residential or non-residential locations. Orland Park is 58,703, and every one of the seventeen places on this site is far under a million. The statutory text is quoted from FindLaw’s current reproduction. Four: the seasonal programs are drawn the same way. Yard waste runs weekly April 1 through the second full week of December in Kraft paper bags — paper because 415 ILCS 5/22.22 is written as a container rule — with brush cut to four-foot lengths and bundled under 50 pounds, and “Unbundled brush will not be collected.” Outside it entirely: “sod, whole trees, stumps, and dirt are not part of the weekly yard waste program,” and “limbs greater than 4 inches in diameter.” The Curbside Spring Clean-Up, listed for the week of 6–10 April 2026, takes furniture, textiles, carpets, washers, dryers and refrigerators, bagged, contained or bundled with no loose garbage, and requires that “Doors must be removed from all appliances”; it says in terms that “Electronics are NOT included in the Curbside Spring Clean-Up event.” Construction and remodeling debris is not on the list of what it takes. Recycling refusals are published just as flatly: “No food waste · No plastic bags and film · No foam cups or containers · No needles.” White goods “may be placed at the curb… These items will be recycled. Please call Customer Service… prior to collection” — which is 415 ILCS 5/22.28, a component-removal rule, working in plain sight. Household hazardous material has the Village’s “At Your Door” collection, scheduled on 800-449-7587; electronics have the Road District of Orland Township site on Wolf Road, (708) 403-5148, which Cook County lists as one of only two permanent county drop-offs and which is open forty hours a week. The Road District and the Township are different governments from the Village, and we keep those straight. Program dates and rules are revised annually — confirm current ones with the Village on 708-403-6100. Five: where a load actually goes. The Illinois EPA Bureau of Land permits disposal sites, the working distinction is inert against putrescible and chemical, and under 415 ILCS 5/39.2 a site must win local siting approval from its host municipality or county before the state will permit it. We name no facility. What we will say is that everything leaves with the metal and the cardboard pulled out and the sheet on before the truck leaves your driveway.
A village that arrived all at once, and sixteen neighbors with their own halls
Orland Park went from 6,391 people in 1970 to 51,077 by 2000 — 23,045 in 1980, 35,720 in 1990, the 1970s alone up 260.6 percent — and reached 58,703 at the 2020 Census. Orland Square Mall opened on 15 March 1976, in the middle of it, and the Village switched from well water to Lake Michigan water in 1985, which is why “documentation that water has been turned off or that existing wells have been capped” is still on the Village’s demolition checklist today. There are still capped wells under this village. The household figures fill in the rest, from Census QuickFacts and the 2020–2024 American Community Survey: 85.8 percent owner-occupied, 24.8 percent of residents aged 65 or over, a median owner-occupied value of $367,200, a median monthly owner cost without a mortgage of $978, a median household income of $98,910, 23,256 households at 2.47 persons each, 2,664.9 people per square mile across 22.03 square miles. And the two-track part: the village is now edging down 1.3 percent to 2025 while its Will County neighbors grow — New Lenox +6.2, Lockport +6.6, Frankfort +5.3, Lemont +5.0 percent. The new houses are going up on the Will side; the older ones are being remodeled on the Cook side. That a village which filled in three decades now comes due in waves is an inference from those Census figures rather than a housing statistic, and we label it as one: we hold no percentage of Orland Park housing built before any particular year, and no median year built, so we publish neither. The permit answer changes with the boundary too, and in a direction that surprises people. Illinois has no mandatory statewide building code for private construction — the Capital Development Board states in its own codes guidance that “a municipality or county is not required to adopt building codes,” and the codes the Board administers reach state-owned buildings. Municipalities adopt their own or adopt none. Orland Park, a home rule village of more than 25,000 people, adopts its own, right down to a published fee schedule: as published, a demolition permit, a roof permit, a siding permit and a windows and doors permit are each $95 — and fee schedules move, so confirm current figures with the Village on 708-403-6100. For a container the Village’s own answer is friendlier than most people expect: “Permits are not required,” followed by thirty days from placement, private property, five feet from any lot line, and 768 cubic feet at eight feet above grade in a residential zoning district. The Village cites Land Development Code § 6-304.C.12 as authority; we did not read that section and do not quote it. None of the above travels. Those are the Village of Orland Park’s provisions and nobody else’s — sixteen other halls answer for sixteen other places, and the research establishes not one of their rules.
One forecast office, two counties, and the same clay underneath
Weather is the one layer that does not change at a village line. Both of our counties sit inside the warning area of NWS Chicago, the National Weather Service forecast office at Romeoville — and that office is one of the reasons we write the county the way we do, because it puts “Orland Park (small part)” into its Northern Will County forecast zone. The record it keeps is specific rather than decorative. On 27 July 2026 it confirmed an EF-0 tornado here, “3 NW Orland Park” in its own event summary — a 2.9-mile path, 85 mph, 250 yards at its widest. The same system put an EF-1 with an 11.4-mile track and 110 mph winds through Country Club Hills, Hazel Crest and Homewood, produced a 104 mph gust at Bult Field, dropped 3.95 inches of rain in Bridgeview and a 68 mph gust in the Oak Forest area. Locally it left “nearly 9,000 ComEd customers in the village” without power and “numerous overturned oak trees” in Palos Heights, with sewer back-ups behind them. On 15 July 2024 the same office confirmed 32 tornadoes — a record for the NWS Chicago forecast area — eleven in Cook and six in Will, including an EF-2 on the Channahon-to-Matteson track. The historical benchmark is older and belongs to places on this list: the F4 of 21 April 1967, whose path the Weather Service prints as “Palos Hills to Oak Lawn…” with 33 deaths and 500 injuries. We are not a FEMA, insurance or emergency-management partner and nothing here should be read as though we were. On climate, the normals we quote are Chicago O’Hare, 1991–2020, National Weather Service — O’Hare’s own and not this village’s: January and February together average about 22 inches of snow, March averages 5.5 inches of snow against a 47°F high, and May through August average between 3.71 and 4.49 inches of precipitation a month. One useful myth-buster while we are here: lake effect is essentially a non-event this far inland — in an event that gave Porter County, Indiana 11 inches, Midway recorded 0.9. Underneath every place on this list is the same ground. The Illinois State Geological Survey maps this area on the Valparaiso Morainic System, with the Wadsworth Formation — an “extensive surficial clay-rich stratigraphic unit” exceeding 125 feet — at the surface, over more than 185 feet of glacial sediment and Silurian dolomite. Clay-rich is the operative phrase, and it is why plywood goes under the wheels and both rails on every set. We are not qualified to assess ground conditions at an address and we do not do it: no soil bearing capacity, no frost depth, no water-table depth, and no flood zone determination for any property. Two practical items to close on. If your own work involves digging — a footing, a post, a fence line, a stump, a drainage run — call JULIE by dialing 811 first. Under the Illinois Underground Utility Facilities Damage Prevention Act at 220 ILCS 50, notice is required not less than 2 days and no more than 10 days in advance, a normal notice request is valid for 25 days from the initial request, and the tolerance zone extends one and one-half feet either side of the marks, inside which you hand-dig. JULIE asks homeowners for at least 3 days, and directs excavators to physically pre-mark the job site in white paint, flags or chalk before breaking ground — describing that, in its own words, as the law. And on radon we take EPA’s own position rather than a zone number: “all homes should be tested, regardless of zone designation.” A basement opened up for a remodel is a sensible week to do it.
Service Area FAQs
Do you charge extra to deliver outside Orland Park?
No. Everything listed on this page is inside the standard area, and the rate is the one we would quote for the same job in Orland Park. The drop, the pull, the days you keep it and the disposal up to the agreed tonnage all sit inside the single figure you get on the phone. What crossing a boundary changes is never the price. It is the rulebook, and which desk answers.
How far do you actually go?
Across both counties this village straddles and a good way beyond. The short runs from the yard go south and south-west into Will County — Mokena at 2.0 straight-line miles, then New Lenox, Homer Glen and Frankfort, all inside five miles — and east and north across the Cook County side toward Orland Hills, Tinley Park and the Palos municipalities. Further out we run to Lockport and Lemont on the far side of the Des Plaines valley, and east to Oak Forest, Midlothian, Crestwood and Alsip along the Cal-Sag corridor. Every distance we publish is straight-line, and we do not publish drive times at all — the Forest Preserves, the Cal-Sag Channel and the Des Plaines valley break the grid badly enough that a real route is often a good deal longer than a ruler suggests, and an invented drive time helps nobody. Two things travel further than the local rules do: the county layer, which is why the tier a place sits in is the first thing we check, and the weather, which is one forecast office for the whole board. For multi-container work and trade accounts we go further still. Address not on the list? Ring and ask.
Which places are in Will County, and why does that change the answer?
Five of the seventeen: Mokena, New Lenox, Homer Glen, Frankfort and the City of Lockport — four of them among the five closest places on our board. Our own yard is on the Will County side of Orland Park as well, in Frankfort Township, which is why we take this seriously rather than treating it as trivia. What changes is the county layer. In suburban Cook County a whole-building or detached-garage demolition brings the County in as a permitting authority in its own right — its own permit, its own fees, ten business days, a plat of survey, a registered demolition contractor over 625 square feet, a notarized electrical affidavit and a diversion plan proving seventy percent by weight recycled with five percent reused on residential work — plus a $200 asbestos permit that reaches single-family homes even though the federal standard exempts buildings of four units or fewer. Those are Cook County’s published figures as we read them; confirm current ones on (312) 603-8200. On the Will County side none of that reaches, and we could not establish what Will County requires in its place. We are not going to fill that gap with a guess or imply the Cook figures carry across. Ring Will County and ask them directly. Saying so plainly is the most useful thing on this page. And Lemont is in Cook, DuPage and Will at once, so it never gets one county on this site either.
Which parts of Orland Park do you cover?
All of it, and the layout makes it straightforward: LaGrange Road runs north and south as the retail spine, 159th Street and 151st Street run east and west, and the yard sits on 183rd Place at the south end. From here everything inside the village is a short run. Placement is the part worth a sentence on the phone. A narrow lot in an older subdivision, with a short drive and cars parked both sides, is a different job from a wide apron on newer ground — and the Village’s own rule takes a bite out of both, since the unit has to be on private property and five feet clear of any lot line, with a residential ceiling of 768 cubic feet at eight feet above grade and a thirty-day maximum from placement. The Village says “Permits are not required” for that, and it makes no provision at all for standing a container in the street, so nobody should assume a street placement can be permitted here. Give us the street address rather than the mailing town, for two reasons. The first is the county: the village is mostly in Cook and partly in Will, across four townships, and which side you are on decides whether Cook County’s demolition and asbestos machinery is in play. The second is the road: we did not establish who owns the road in front of any given address, and the Village’s own road-work page names three authorities — the Village, the county highway departments and IDOT — adding that State and County projects are “out of the Village’s jurisdiction.” So we will not tell you a particular street is the Village’s. The Village is on 708-403-6100; the Orland Fire Protection District, at 9790 West 151st Street, is the office that will look at a container standing tight against a building, and we publish no separation distance because we could not find one. One boundary worth keeping straight: Orland Hills is a separate village with its own hall on 94th Avenue and its own number, (708) 349-6666, and Orland Township is a different government again. Every box goes down with plywood under the wheels and both rails.
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Need a dumpster in Orland Park today?
Say what is going in and give us the address — the address, because on this village the county changes underneath you. Size, one flat figure and a day, settled before you hang up. No form to fill in, and no queue.
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