Illinois local moratoria
Every local infrastructure moratorium in the inventory for Illinois, current through August 19, 2026.
12 instruments — 11 in force, 0 pending, 1 past.
State policy is tracked separately: 11 actions (11 bills) in state_legislation.csv. These are not included in the local count above.
| Jurisdiction | Type | Enacted | Sectors | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Champaign County | County | 2026-04-23 | data center | 🟢 Active |
| City of Aurora | City | 2025-09-25 | data center | ⚪ Replaced |
| City of Bloomington | City | 2026-05-26 | data center | 🟢 Active |
| City of Carbondale | City | 2026-06-23 | data center | 🟢 Active |
| City of Collinsville | City | Unverified | data center | 🟢 Active |
| City of Effingham | City | 2026-06-02 | cryptocurrency mining, data center | 🟢 Active |
| City of Troy | City | 2026-03 | data center | 🟢 Active |
| City of West Chicago | City | 2026-07-06 | data center, battery storage | 🟢 Active |
| La Salle County | County | 2026-06-08 | data center | 🟢 Active |
| Morgan County | County | 2026-04-27 | data center | 🟢 Active |
| Town of Normal | Town | 2026-05-18 | data center | 🟢 Active |
| Village of Godfrey | Village | 2026-01-20 | data center | 🟢 Extended |
Detailed entries
Champaign County
- Type: County
- Status: 🟢 Active
- Date enacted: 2026-04-23
- Normalized date:
2026-04-23(exact) - Duration: 12 months (Board reverted 9-month ELUC amendment back to 12 months on 2026-04-23 per WGLT and Prairie Rivers Network reporting; Board Member Emily Rodriguez introduced the amendment)
- Current end date:
— - Sectors: data center
- Moratorium ID:
il-champaign-county-2026 - Legal basis: Zoning Case 196-AT-26, a Champaign County Zoning Ordinance text amendment (new Section 5.6, amending Section 5.2) imposing a 12-month development moratorium on data centers of at least 10,000 sq ft of processing area, recommended for enactment by the Zoning Board of Appeals 4-0 on 2026-03-19, and adopted by the County Board on 2026-04-23 as Ordinance No. 2026-9.
- What prompted it: County materials cite groundwater quality and safety, Mahomet Aquifer and water use concerns, energy use, and need for standards for large-scale data centers before proposals arrive.
- Affected projects: Data centers with at least 10,000 square feet of processing area. Draft zoning language also discussed "big" data centers rated at 10 MW or greater for related standards. Proposed projects would not be approved, and pending projects would be held in abeyance during the moratorium.
- Detailed status: Active
- Outcome: Pending. The County Board created a Data Center Activities Task Force in February 2026 to recommend zoning amendments.
City of Aurora
- Type: City
- Status: ⚪ Replaced
- Date enacted: 2025-09-25
- Normalized date:
2025-09-25(exact) - Duration: 180 days, with one-time 30-day extension invoked before final ordinance adoption
- Current end date:
— - Sectors: data center
- Moratorium ID:
il-aurora-2025 - Legal basis: Ordinance O25-064
- What prompted it: Rapid expansion of data centers in northern Illinois; existing code classified data centers as warehouses; city cited neighborhood complaints, noise, emissions, high energy and water use, stormwater, utility demand, infrastructure strain, and fiscal impacts.
- Affected projects: New data center and warehouse developments, subject to carve-outs for previously filed entitlement applications, existing data center remodels, routine maintenance, and public safety facilities. Aurora reported five data centers in city limits and five more in development when it adopted the permanent rules.
- Detailed status: Replaced
- Outcome: City Council approved new rules on 2026-03-24, described by the city as adopted on 2026-03-25. New data centers are conditional uses requiring public hearing, public notice, City Council approval, development agreement, water study and plan, energy plan, sound study and plan, noise and vibration limits, energy and water limits, no evaporative cooling, no modular nuclear, annual energy and water reporting, annual noise testing, and either on-site renewables or battery storage or alternative compliance.
City of Bloomington
- Type: City
- Status: 🟢 Active
- Date enacted: City Council unanimously approved a six-month moratorium on 2026-05-26.
- Normalized date:
2026-05-26(exact) - Duration: Six-month moratorium applying to data centers designed for more than 5 megawatts; requires at least two public hearings during the pause and may be extended.
- Current end date:
— - Sectors: data center
- Moratorium ID:
il-city-of-bloomington-2026 - Legal basis: City of Bloomington ordinance (specific ordinance number not confirmed; the official CivicClerk attachment endpoint returned only a JavaScript application shell, not extractable ordinance text)
- What prompted it: Followed public forums with strong resident opposition to hyperscale data center development.
- Affected projects: —
- Detailed status: Active six-month moratorium; city published an implementation work plan in June 2026. [VERIFY instrument number; primary source (news-only evidence) not confirmed at confidence 0.6 in the 2026-07 refresh]
- Outcome: —
City of Carbondale
- Type: City
- Status: 🟢 Active
- Date enacted: City Council voted 4-1 to adopt a resolution initiating a one-year moratorium on 2026-06-23.
- Normalized date:
2026-06-23(exact) - Duration: One-year moratorium on data center development; council also directed staff to begin a zoning text amendment.
- Current end date:
— - Sectors: data center
- Moratorium ID:
il-city-of-carbondale-2026 - Legal basis: City of Carbondale resolution (specific resolution number not stated in available sources)
- What prompted it: Community concerns about water use, electricity demand, noise, and light; no developer had approached the city before the vote.
- Affected projects: No developer had approached the city before the vote.
- Detailed status: Active one-year moratorium.
- Outcome: —
City of Collinsville
- Type: City
- Status: 🟢 Active
- Date enacted: N/A
- Normalized date:
—(unverified) - Duration: Proposed 12 months
- Current end date:
— - Sectors: data center
- Moratorium ID:
il-collinsville-undated - Legal basis: Planning Commission matter 5368-2025 / "Data Center Moratorium" — not enacted: Collinsville Legistar API search (filter on MatterTitle contains "moratorium", fetched 2026-04-29) returned no City Council moratorium matters since the Planning Commission's December 11, 2025 recommendation; the only follow-up Planning Commission item is matter 5501-2025 "Discussion - Data Center Text Amendment" on 2026-03-12, indicating the city pivoted from a moratorium recommendation to drafting a text amendment instead.
- What prompted it: Planning Commission discussion focused on researching how data centers and related uses should appear in the land-use table and whether supplementary regulations are needed for design, nuisances, and infrastructure strain.
- Affected projects: No pending applications were reported by local coverage at the time of the Planning Commission recommendation.
- Detailed status: Reported as enacted: a May 28, 2026 Troy Times Tribune article states, in the course of describing Troy's own six-month moratorium, that 'Collinsville approved a year-long moratorium.' This indicates the City Council acted on the Planning Commission's December 11, 2025 recommendation at some point before late May 2026. Collinsville's own website (collinsvilleil.org) and Legistar system (both the public site and the webapi.legistar.com/v1/collinsvilleil endpoint) returned bot-protection errors (HTTP 403) or a client-configuration error to every automated retrieval attempt this session, so the ordinance number and exact adoption date could not be independently confirmed.
- Outcome: Per a May 28, 2026 Troy Times Tribune comparative reference, Collinsville did in fact enact its proposed year-long data center moratorium at some point between the Planning Commission's December 11, 2025 recommendation and late May 2026, despite the Planning Commission's parallel March 2026 discussion of a text amendment. Ordinance number and exact date not independently confirmed this pass.
City of Effingham
- Type: City
- Status: 🟢 Active
- Date enacted: City Council adopted Ordinance 052-2026 by a 5-0 vote on 2026-06-02.
- Normalized date:
2026-06-02(exact) - Duration: 12-month moratorium on accepting applications, permitting, and permit approval for cryptocurrency mines, data centers, and similar facilities within the city and its 1.5-mile extraterritorial area.
- Current end date:
— - Sectors: cryptocurrency mining, data center
- Moratorium ID:
il-city-of-effingham-2026 - Legal basis: City of Effingham Ordinance 052-2026
- What prompted it: Public comments cited pollution and water-use concerns.
- Affected projects: —
- Detailed status: Active 12-month moratorium.
- Outcome: —
City of Troy
- Type: City
- Status: 🟢 Active
- Date enacted: March 2026 (exact date not captured; per a May 28, 2026 Troy Times Tribune article, enacted after multiple council meetings between January and March 2026)
- Normalized date:
2026-03(month_only) - Duration: 6 months, with council-discretion option to extend for another 6 months starting September 2026
- Current end date:
— - Sectors: data center
- Moratorium ID:
il-city-of-troy-2026 - Legal basis: Troy City Council ordinance (specific number not captured this pass)
- What prompted it: Data center development interest; city sought time to research other states' ordinances/resolutions and add requirements before considering data center real estate proposals; city attorney favored 6 months over 12 as more legally defensible
- Affected projects: Not specified in available reporting
- Detailed status: Active as of May 28, 2026 per the Troy Times Tribune; city staff were still developing a three-step ordinance review process (planning commission review, first reading, second reading/vote) and preparing to solicit public comment via a dedicated email address as of that date.
- Outcome: Moratorium in effect while the city studies data center regulations from other jurisdictions; may be extended for another six months beginning September 2026 at council's discretion
City of West Chicago
- Type: City
- Status: 🟢 Active
- Date enacted: City Council approved Ordinance 26-O-0011 by a 12-0 vote on 2026-07-06.
- Normalized date:
2026-07-06(exact) - Duration: 180-day moratorium on receipt, processing, and final approval of applications and permits for data centers and battery energy storage systems in every zoning district; protects complete pre-effective-date applications and approved permits, includes limited exceptions and a hardship process, and directs staff to present findings within three months. Council may extend or lift it by ordinance.
- Current end date:
— - Sectors: data center, battery storage
- Moratorium ID:
il-city-of-west-chicago-2026 - Legal basis: City of West Chicago Ordinance 26-O-0011
- What prompted it: —
- Affected projects: Complete pre-effective-date applications and already-approved permits are protected.
- Detailed status: Active 180-day moratorium.
- Outcome: —
La Salle County
- Type: County
- Status: 🟢 Active
- Date enacted: County Board approved Ordinance 26-65 on 2026-06-08 by a voice vote of 26 ayes, three members absent.
- Normalized date:
2026-06-08(exact) - Duration: 12-month moratorium on data center development.
- Current end date:
— - Sectors: data center
- Moratorium ID:
il-la-salle-county-2026 - Legal basis: La Salle County Ordinance 26-65 (Record Book 267, pages 036-038)
- What prompted it: —
- Affected projects: —
- Detailed status: Active 12-month moratorium.
- Outcome: —
Morgan County
- Type: County
- Status: 🟢 Active
- Date enacted: 2026-04-27
- Normalized date:
2026-04-27(exact) - Duration: 6 months
- Current end date:
— - Sectors: data center
- Moratorium ID:
il-morgan-county-2026 - Legal basis: County Board resolution imposing a hard 6-month data center moratorium, moved by Chairman Wankel after the matter was discussed with State's Attorney Gray Noll prior to the meeting, adopted by unanimous roll-call vote (Commissioners Wood and Woods, Chairman Wankel) on April 27, 2026.
- What prompted it: County commissioners and residents sought time to study health, financial, resource, farmland, and community impacts and to draft standards before any application is filed.
- Affected projects: New data center applications; no applications or expressed project interest had been received by the county as of the reported vote.
- Detailed status: Active
- Outcome: Pending. County officials stated the pause is intended for standards and requirements, with possible adjustment after state action.
Town of Normal
- Type: Town
- Status: 🟢 Active
- Date enacted: Town Council voted 7-0 to adopt Ordinance 6063 on 2026-05-18.
- Normalized date:
2026-05-18(exact) - Duration: Pauses receipt, processing, approval, and permitting of data center applications through November 30, 2026, while the town develops land-use rules.
- Current end date:
— - Sectors: data center
- Moratorium ID:
il-town-of-normal-2026 - Legal basis: Town of Normal Ordinance 6063
- What prompted it: Town sought time to develop data center land-use rules; staff said no applications had been received.
- Affected projects: No data center applications had been received by the town as of the vote.
- Detailed status: Active moratorium through 2026-11-30 unless shortened or extended.
- Outcome: —
Village of Godfrey
- Type: Village
- Status: 🟢 Extended
- Date enacted: 2026-01-20
- Normalized date:
2026-01-20(exact) - Duration: Extended by Village Board resolution for another 180 days on or about 2026-08-04; active through approximately 2027-01-31.
- Current end date:
— - Sectors: data center
- Moratorium ID:
il-godfrey-2026 - Legal basis: Resolution #2026-01 (confirmed via January 20, 2026 Village Board minutes captured in
research/_originals/2026-01-20-village-board-minutes.pdf; minutes record 6-0 unanimous adoption; resolution text appears in the January 2026 Village newsletter without the resolution number, but the January 20 minutes attach the number) - What prompted it: The village cited the need to study infrastructure capacity, utilities, energy consumption, water usage, environmental considerations, land-use compatibility, long-term planning, and whether code or zoning amendments are warranted.
- Affected projects: Building and Zoning Department directed not to accept, process, or review applications, petitions, permits, approvals, or requests for establishment, construction, or expansion of data centers in any village zoning district.
- Detailed status: Extended and active as of 2026-08-19. The Village Board unanimously approved a further 180-day pause on data-center applications in early August 2026; reporting places the new endpoint at approximately 2027-01-31.
- Outcome: Pending. The resolution is expressly a study period for possible Village Code, zoning, or development standard changes.
Source: moratorium_inventory.csv · Methodology · Codebook.