Research snapshot · Waste · 31 August 2026

Solid waste operations in Illinois: 11 towns on the record, the pace easing

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.

Snapshot taken 31 August 2026, based on 16 dated municipal records flagged as solid waste operations in Illinois, spanning 11 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 Plano, 9 September 2019. Since then 11 Illinois towns have put the topic on a meeting record, the newest of them Clarendon Hills on 27 March 2026.

The last 90 days put 0 meetings on the record, well down from 2 in the 90 days before.

It runs through the rooms where budgets and ordinances are made: Approved Vendor Runs, Trustee Topics/Daisy Digest and Document Center / Community & Economic Development.

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 202655
Mar 2026 to May 202622
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 5 meetings.

The towns on the record11, earliest first

Every Illinois town carrying the topic, the earliest first, each with its latest document.
Planoearliest 2019-09-09 · 6 meetings · latest 2026-02-10 · the document Approved Vendor Run for February 10, 2026
Palos Parkearliest 2023-05-01 · 1 meeting · latest 2023-05-01 · the document FY 2024 (May 1, 2023-April 30, 2024) Budget Document
Riversideearliest 2023-10-01 · 2 meetings · latest 2026-05-12 · the agenda Landscape Advisory Commission Regular Meeting Agenda
Hanover Parkearliest 2024-01-01 · 1 meeting · latest 2024-01-01 · the document O-21-14 ORD Amending Chapter 6 and 50-31 re Signs and Dumpster Materials
Northbrookearliest 2025-04-01 · 1 meeting · latest 2025-04-01 · the document March/April 2025 - Northbrook Voice
Skokieearliest 2025-12-09 · 1 meeting · latest 2025-12-09 · the document 12/9/25 The Scoop (PDF)
La Grange Parkearliest 2026-01-05 · 1 meeting · latest 2026-01-05 · the minutes Minutes — Sustainability Commission
Pingree Groveearliest 2026-01-20 · 1 meeting · latest 2026-01-20 · the agenda Board of Trustees Meeting Agenda Packet
Flossmoorearliest 2026-02-17 · 1 meeting · latest 2026-02-17 · the minutes Minutes — Green Commission
Clarendon Hillsearliest 2026-03-27 · 1 meeting · latest 2026-03-27 · a report Weekly Staff Report March 27, 2026
Libertyvilledated to the year only

From the record

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

12 May 2026 · Riverside Landscape Advisory Commission

the agenda, on the town's own site Landscape Advisory Commission Regular Meeting Agenda

27 March 2026 · Clarendon Hills Weekly Staff Reports

a report, on the town's own site Weekly Staff Report March 27, 2026

17 February 2026 · Flossmoor Green Commission

the minutes, on the town's own site Minutes — Green Commission

10 February 2026 · Plano Approved Vendor Runs

the document, on the town's own site Approved Vendor Run for February 10, 2026

Companies on this record104 companies, 21 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:
CAPERS NORTH AMERICA, LLCPlano
ComEdPingree Grove, Riverside, Skokie
ADP, INCPlano
ComcastPlano
CROWES AUTO REPAIRPlano
NicorPingree Grove, Riverside
AERZEN USA CORPORATIONPlano
AID GROUPPlano
ALAN ENVIRONMENTAL PRODUCTSPlano
AmazonPlano
AMAZON CAPITAL SERVICESPlano
AUTO ZONEPlano
CAM-VAC INCPlano
CDL ELECTRIC CO, INCPlano
COMCAST CABLEPlano
COMMUNICATIONS DIRECT INCPlano
DanaherPlano
GROOT, INCPlano
HACH COMPANYPlano
Lakeshore Recycling Systems (LRS)Clarendon Hills
Village of NorthbrookNorthbrook
"D" CONSTRUCTION, INCPlano
1ST AYD CORPORATIONPingree Grove
Advanced Drainage SystemsPlano
AirgasPlano
AIRGAS USA, LLCPlano
ALFA LAVAL INCPlano
ALL INDUSTRIAL SAFETYPlano
ALYSOK CHEMICAL CORPPingree Grove
American Water WorksPlano

And 74 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. 132 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.

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Solid waste operations, Illinois

from the towns' own meeting records

Scope

Illinois

every topic this state carries

Area

Waste

every topic in this area

Towns on the record

11

with a dated document on this topic

Earliest

9 September 2019

the documents' dates

Meetings, last 90 days

0 against 2 before

dated documents

Snapshot cut

31 August 2026

this page's date

A view that stays current

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