Research snapshot · Energy · 31 August 2026

Energy efficiency code in Illinois: 6 towns on the record, quiet right now

This page is a snapshot, cut 31 August 2026, of a topic that moves. Below is the shape of the movement, read from the towns' own meeting records, and the way to get a view of it that stays current.

Already a well-mapped Known topic with 8 events. Keep as-is.Our definition of the class, 29 August 2026.

Snapshot taken 31 August 2026, based on 10 dated municipal records flagged as energy efficiency code in Illinois, spanning 6 municipalities. The topic moves; a later cut supersedes this page.

What this page is for one topic at state or national scope, told as a story: how it arrived, the shape of its movement, a dated snapshot of a moving record, and the door to a view of it that stays current. If it does not, write to us; that is what changes the next edition.

The story so far

The record starts in Clarendon Hills, 1 January 2005. Since then 6 Illinois towns have put the topic on a meeting record, the newest of them Riverside on 4 December 2025.

It runs through the rooms where budgets and ordinances are made: Weekly Staff Reports, The Scoop Weekly eNewsletter and Legislature — 104th General Assembly.

The shape of the movement

Dated meetings on the record at this scope, quarter by quarter, and the same 90-day count as a rolling line, whose right-hand point is that number. Counts of documents, never a reading of what they decided.
QuarterMeetingsTowns
Sep 2025 to Nov 202500
Dec 2025 to Feb 202632
Mar 2026 to May 202600
Jun 2026 to Aug 2026 (current)00

a rolling 90-day total, so the right-hand point is that same 90-day count. The busiest stretch was Dec 2025 to Feb 2026, with 3 meetings.

The towns on the record6, earliest first

Every Illinois town carrying the topic, the earliest first, each with its latest document.
Clarendon Hillsearliest 2005-01-01 · 3 meetings · latest 2023-03-24 · a report Weekly Staff Report March 24, 2023
Planoearliest 2021-02-08 · 1 meeting · latest 2021-02-08 · the document Approved Vendor Run for February 8, 2021
Skokieearliest 2025-03-11 · 2 meetings · latest 2025-12-23 · the document 12/23/25 The Scoop (PDF)
Palos Parkearliest 2025-04-14 · 1 meeting · latest 2025-04-14 · the agenda April 14, 2025 (PDF)
State of ILearliest 2025-06-16 · 1 meeting · latest 2025-06-16 · the document SB2456: ENERGY EFFICIENCY-EXT REPEAL
Riversideearliest 2025-12-04 · 2 meetings · latest 2026-01-13 · the minutes Agenda center file Landscape Advisory Commission Regular Meeting Agenda

From the record

The most recent documents behind this page, one per town. Each link opens the town's own file.

13 January 2026 · Riverside Landscape Advisory Commission

the minutes, on the town's own site Agenda center file Landscape Advisory Commission Regular Meeting Agenda

23 December 2025 · Skokie The Scoop Weekly eNewsletter

the document, on the town's own site 12/23/25 The Scoop (PDF)

16 June 2025 · State of IL Legislature — 104th General Assembly

the document, on the town's own site SB2456: ENERGY EFFICIENCY-EXT REPEAL

14 April 2025 · Palos Park Council

the agenda, on the town's own site April 14, 2025 (PDF)

Companies on this record43 companies, 9 documents

Named in the same documents that carry this topic, read from the record itself: the firms designing, building and advising the work, each with where the record places them:
ComEdClarendon Hills, Skokie
ADP, INCPlano
Airy’s Construction IncPalos Park
ALARM DETECTION SYSTEMS, INCPlano
Annie’s RestaurantSkokie
AUTO ZONEPlano
AXON ENTERPRISE, INCPlano
BallotpediaSkokie
BATTERY SERVICE CORPORATIONPlano
BAXTER & WOODMAN INCPlano
BELLEFEUIL SZUR & ASSOCIATESPlano
BullySkokie
CAPERS NORTH AMERICA, LLCPlano
CDL ELECTRIC CO, INCPlano
CINTAS CORPORATION NO. 2Plano
CivicPlusPalos Park
COMCAST CABLEPlano
Cook County Clerk's OfficeSkokie
Cook County Clerk’s OfficeSkokie
CRESCENT ELECTRIC SUPPLY COPlano
Du-CommClarendon Hills
Health and Human Services DepartmentSkokie
Illinois Institute of TechnologyRiverside
Illinois Science + Technology ParkSkokie
Klein, Thorpe and Jenkins, Ltd (KTJ)Skokie
LambrosRiverside
Maine-Niles Association of Special Recreation (M-NASR)Skokie
Marsh-OzgaRiverside
MC Squared ServicesSkokie
Medical Reserve Corps (MRC)Skokie

And 13 more companies.

The documents naming each, and the threads they sit in, are the account view. If one of these is you, those are your projects on the record. Ask and we will show you every one, and the towns around them, as they move.

A snapshot of a moving record

Everything above is frozen at 31 August 2026; the topic is not. 43 more events on this topic carry no usable date and are counted, never dated. The counts follow where we read most: a town or a state absent here was not read at depth, and absence is not evidence the topic is absent there. A lighter-read state is not a ceiling; where you care about a region, pointing the system there is the first thing an account changes. How coverage is built, and its known limits: municipalalpha.com/methodology.

How we can tell you about it ongoing

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Also at this scope: Energy efficiency code across the country. Counts and dates are computed from the documents on the record; the topic and its definition are ours. This page carries no subscriber content.

Energy efficiency code, Illinois

from the towns' own meeting records

Scope

Illinois

every topic this state carries

Area

Energy

every topic in this area

Towns on the record

6

with a dated document on this topic

Earliest

1 January 2005

the documents' dates

Meetings, last 90 days

0 against 0 before

dated documents

Snapshot cut

31 August 2026

this page's date

A view that stays current

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