As an Alarm/Security System user, an annual permit is required.

All alarm users are required to submit an annual alarm user information form. This addresses alarms connected directly to the city's communication center, a private monitoring firm, a proprietary central station or any other structure where an installed alarm system is capable of sounding an alarm throughout the building via the activation of a single device. 

TERM: One Year

INITIAL REGISTRATION FEE: $100 per application

RENEWABLE: $30 (due annually on the month of initial registration)

TRANSFERABLE: No.

CONTACT:  Call 311 (847-448-4311)

IMPORTANT: OPERATION OF AN UNLICENSED ALARM SYSTEM MAY SUBJECT YOU TO PENALTIES INCLUDING FINES OF UP TO $550 PER OCCURRENCE.

False Alarms

Information on False Alarms can be found in the City Code, Title 9, Chapter 10, Section 3.

False alarms place the lives and property of community members in jeopardy. While police and firefighters are responding to alarms that turn out to be false, they are less likely available to respond to alarms that are valid. In addition, the occupants are less likely to believe in their system with repeated false activations.

False Alarm Fees

When the City's Emergency Communication Center is notified of a fire or police incident at an address using an alarm system (registered or unregistered) and that incident is determined to be a false alarm, the alarm user shall be charged a false alarm fee.

 
Fire incident false alarms and police incident false alarms are counted separately. The count of each type of false alarm per alarm user is reset each calendar year.

The alarm administrator shall notify the alarm user in writing for each instance of a fire or police incident false alarm. Such charges will be invoiced periodically as determined by the alarm administrator. The charges for excessive false alarms shall be paid to the City Collector within sixty (60) days from the date of invoice. In the event the false alarm service charges are not paid within a sixty (60) day period from the date of invoice, the service charges shall increase by fifty (50) percent per alarm occurrence invoiced.

If an alarm system is unregistered and used to create a fire or police incident that is determined to be a false alarm, the alarm administrator may assess a two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) penalty to the alarm user for each false alarm for failing to register their alarm system with the City in accordance with this Chapter.