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Checked November 9, 2026 against the statute and bill status pages on ilga.gov, each town's own code, council record or release, and the Federal Register.
Federal. Kratom leaf and mitragynine are not federally controlled. DEA's notice of October 14, 2026 proposes controlling the concentrated minor alkaloid above a threshold, with any order to come "on or after November 13, 2026": a floor, not a start date. No order had been published or placed on public inspection through November 9, 2026.
Illinois bills. The nine kratom bills we found in the 104th General Assembly, three that would prohibit (HB3129, SB1570, SB3160) and six that would regulate (HB1303, HB3127, HB3215, HB4737, HB5242, SB1183), had not passed either chamber and sat in committee.
Towns. Naperville's ban on businesses selling, offering, distributing or delivering kratom has been in force since October 1, 2026. Darien's, adopted October 19, 2026 in nearly the same words, starts 30 days after passage: November 18, 2026 by our count, so it was not in force on November 9. Bartlett's broader ban took effect on passage, October 20, 2026, and Marion adopted its ordinance on September 28, 2026.
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Is kratom legal in Illinois? Under state law, yes for adults. Illinois has no statewide ban. The state's only kratom law, the Kratom Control Act, bars anyone under 18 from buying or possessing it and bars anyone from selling or furnishing it to them. Below the state, it depends on the town. Naperville has barred businesses from selling, offering, distributing or delivering kratom since October 1, 2026, Wheaton bars advertising it as well, and East Alton's code reaches possession by anyone. A sale ban and a possession ban are different rules, and a headline may not say which one a town adopted, so the rules below use each town's own words wherever we could read them.
Is kratom legal in Illinois? What the state law says
Illinois has one kratom statute, the Kratom Control Act, 720 ILCS 642: two sections, in force since January 1, 2015. The source note on each reads "P.A. 98-981, eff. 1-1-15", and neither lists a later Public Act.
The Act defines kratom as "any parts of the plant Mitragyna speciosa, whether growing or not, and any compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of that plant", then sets three rules, all of them about minors. "A minor under 18 years of age shall not knowingly purchase or possess any product containing any quantity of Kratom." A minor may not use a false or altered ID to get it. And no one may "knowingly sell, buy for, distribute samples of, or furnish" kratom to anyone under 18. Each is a Class B misdemeanor, and a seller who sells to a minor "shall be fined an amount of not less than $500". That is a minimum, not a cap.
That is the whole Act. No adult age, no labeling, testing or potency rule, no license. It never mentions adults, and it says nothing about whether towns may go further. Schedule I of the Illinois Controlled Substances Act, 720 ILCS 570/204, does not name kratom, mitragynine or the minor alkaloid either, and the ordinance text in Wheaton's 2026 council packet states that kratom "is not presently regulated under the Illinois Controlled Substance Act".
So is kratom banned in Illinois? Not by the state. The bans are local. Naperville, Wheaton, Darien and Bartlett invoke home rule powers in their ordinances, while Antioch's mayor said the village "appears to be the first non-home rule community in the State of Illinois to ban these substances", acting through its liquor and tobacco licenses. Whether your town has the power a neighbor used is a question for a lawyer licensed in Illinois.
Kratom ban Illinois: the towns we could verify at their own records
These are the nine towns whose bans we could verify at their own records (code, council file or release) on November 9, 2026: Naperville, Wheaton, Darien, Bartlett, Marion, East Alton, Orland Park, Antioch and Lake Zurich. Each row uses the town's verbs. "Not covered" describes the text. It is not a suggestion.
| Town | What it bars | Possession | Adopted | In force | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Naperville | Any business: "sell, offer for sale, distribute, or deliver Kratom" | Under 18 only | September 1, 2026 | October 1, 2026 | City Council record, File 26-0984B. |
| Wheaton | Anyone: "advertise, display, manufacture, sell, offer for sale, give away, deliver, distribute, or transfer" | Not covered | April 20, 2026 | Enforcement from May 1, 2026 | City release and agenda packet text. |
| Darien | Any business: "sell, offer for sale, distribute or deliver Kratom" | Under 18 only | October 19, 2026, 7 to 0 | "30 days after passage": November 18, 2026, by our count | Ordinance O-38-26, code publisher. |
| Bartlett | "No person shall advertise, sell, offer for sale, give away, deliver, or distribute" kratom products | Not covered | October 20, 2026, 6 to 0 | On passage and approval | Ordinance 2026-102, code publisher. |
| Marion | Anyone: "sell, offer for sale, display for sale, deliver, distribute, possess with intent to sale, or otherwise furnish" | Retailers and businesses only | September 28, 2026 | On passage, approval and publication; publication date not read | Ordinance 4138, code publisher. |
| East Alton | Any person: "possess, deliver, distribute or display for sale" | Yes, by anyone, including use | Not printed | Immediately on passage and approval; date not printed | Village code, chapter 17. |
| Orland Park | Businesses: "manufacturing, selling or distributing kratom", per the release | Not in the release | April 15, 2024, unanimously, Ordinance 5883 | Immediately, per the release | Village release, April 19, 2024. |
| Antioch | Liquor and tobacco license holders may not sell it | Not in the release | 5 to 0, amending Ordinance No. 23-11-32 | December 8, 2023 | Village release, December 1, 2023. |
| Lake Zurich | Tobacco license holders must agree "to refrain from selling delta-8 and kratom" | Not in the file | Not printed | No sales after December 31, 2024 | Village code file, tobacco retailers. |
Oak Park and Morton Grove, also verified, regulate rather than ban; they are covered below.
Towns reported but not verified
Local news, another town's memo or other lists name these. We could not read their ordinances at a government source, so they stay out of the table.
Normal and Bloomington. WGLT reported on June 1, 2026 that Normal's council had unanimously approved a ban on the sale or distribution of kratom, effective July 15, with fines of $100 to $750 a day: "The measure does not make possession of the substance against the law." On January 26, 2026, WGLT reported that under a new Bloomington ordinance, residents and businesses "can no longer possess or sell" kratom and synthetic alternatives, a nuisance violation with fines of $350 to $750.
Greater Peoria. WCBU reported on March 2, 2026 that "Peoria Heights recently became the first municipality in Peoria County to enact a ban on the sale of kratom", after East Peoria, Morton and Pekin acted in October, November and December, which WGLT's January 26, 2026 report places in 2025; in WCBU's story, a Tazewell County Health Department epidemiologist said Creve Coeur had passed a similar ordinance. WCBU's May 5, 2026 report adds Tremont to the Central Illinois towns "that have banned the sale of kratom". Morton is not Morton Grove, the Cook County village below.
Washington, Illinois. That May report says Washington bans synthetic kratom sales, allows natural kratom once an independent laboratory test verifies its ingredients, and keeps anyone under 21 out of stores selling it: not a full ban.
Named in Naperville's memo. The staff memo for Naperville's vote says Winnetka, Plainfield and Bloomington "have implemented full retail sale bans", and that Rockford prohibits the sale of kratom products with synthetic forms of the minor alkaloid. We did not read those ordinances.
No government record. We found no government record of a kratom ordinance for Jerseyville, Alton, Edwardsville or Glen Carbon, which does not prove that none exists.
How the town ordinances differ
The word "ban" hides real differences. Many of these rules also group kratom with THC or intoxicating hemp products, or with tianeptine, as Wheaton, Orland Park, Antioch, Lake Zurich, Oak Park and Morton Grove do. For how kratom and cannabis compare, see our page on whether kratom is like weed.
Business sale bans: Naperville and Darien. The two bar businesses from selling, offering, distributing or delivering kratom, in nearly the same words (Darien's from November 18, 2026, by our count). Both bar anyone under 18 from buying, possessing or using it, and neither addresses possession or use by adults. Naperville's City Council record shows an ordinance "to prohibit the retail sale of kratom" passed on September 1, 2026, after the city's Liquor Commission "unanimously recommended prohibiting the retail sale of kratom" on July 9. The local outlet NCTV17 reported the vote as 8 to 0. According to the staff memo, a 2019 Naperville rule had already barred retail sales to anyone under 21. The 2026 ordinance text sets no penalty of its own, and we did not read the city code's general penalties. Darien's ordinance sets a minimum fine of $500 through administrative adjudication and provides for orders to remove products.
A possession ban: East Alton. East Alton's village code is the one ordinance text we read that reaches possession by anyone, adults included. Its definition of "possess" begins with "use" and runs through making, storing and concealing. Fines run from $75 to $750, and each day a violation exists is a separate offense.
Sale and advertising bans: Wheaton and Bartlett. The ordinance text in Wheaton's council agenda packet covers "any person, business, or entity, including a liquor licensee or tobacco licensee", and applies "whether or not provided for human consumption or in any way labeled or indicated not for human consumption". A not-for-consumption label does not take a product outside it. Fines are at least $500 for a first violation and at least $1,000 after that. Each sale or delivery counts separately, and so does each day items are offered; violators repay the city's testing costs, and city licenses can be suspended or revoked after a hearing. Bartlett extends "person" to an "employee, volunteer or agent", sets fines of $50 to $750, and lets a conviction cost a business its license.
Retailers may not even hold it: Marion. Marion's ordinance adds a line aimed at sellers: "It shall be unlawful for any Retailer or Business to possess Kratom." Possession by a consumer is not covered. Fines go up to $750 for each offense, each day counting separately, and the council "encourages and implores the Illinois General Assembly to likewise ban the sale of Kratom".
License-holder rules: Antioch and Lake Zurich. Per its release, Antioch bars liquor and tobacco license holders from selling products containing delta-8 THC and kratom. Lake Zurich wrote its rule into tobacco licensing: an applicant who will not agree to stop selling kratom can be refused, though the condition can be waived for products "approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration". Neither rule reaches every business.
Towns that regulate instead: Oak Park and Morton Grove. Since June 1, 2025, Oak Park has barred sales of kratom products to anyone under 21, required plain packaging, and had the products kept in a locked case or behind the counter, with fines of $20 to $750 per violation. Morton Grove has required a village license to sell kratom products since January 1, 2026, under Ordinance 25-24. Neither is a ban.
Nine kratom bills in Springfield: three to prohibit, six to regulate
Reading each bill's status page on ilga.gov, we found nine kratom bills filed in the 104th General Assembly, which runs from 2025 to 2026. On November 9, 2026 none had passed either chamber and all nine sat in committee. We did not check whether any could still move before the session ends.
Three would prohibit. HB3129 would add mitragynine and the minor alkaloid to Schedule III and repeal the Kratom Control Act; it went back to the House Rules Committee on March 21, 2025. SB1570 would apply the minors-only rules to everyone, providing that "a person (rather than a minor under 18 years of age) shall not knowingly purchase or possess any product containing any quantity of Kratom." SB3160, the Kratom Prohibition Act, filed February 2, 2026, "Prohibits the purchase, possession, sale, or distribution of any product containing kratom".
Six would regulate. HB4737, the Illinois Kratom Consumer Protection Act, would bar sales to anyone under 21, require labels, set civil penalties of $5,000 and then $10,000 for selling products that "meet certain specifications", ban products with a synthetically derived compound of the kratom plant, and repeal the current Act. If enacted, it would take effect January 1, 2027; it went back to House Rules on March 27, 2026. HB5242 would require registration with the Department of Public Health, a certificate of analysis for each batch and product liability insurance. SB1183 and HB1303 would set age 21, with online age verification and a 5 percent tax on retail sales.
HB3127 would raise the age to 21 and bar advertising or selling kratom within 1,000 feet of schools, parks, libraries and similar places, and HB3215 would set up product registration and labeling.
Would they touch town bans? HB4737's synopsis says it "Limits home rule powers and functions", and SB1183's says it "Limits home rule powers". We read the synopses, not the full bills, so we cannot tell you what either would mean for an ordinance like Naperville's.
What DEA's notice says about Illinois, and what its footnote shows
DEA's notice of October 14, 2026 (FR Doc 2026-20943) proposes temporary federal control of the concentrated minor alkaloid above a threshold. Under the heading "State Regulations and Controls", on page 65375, it lists 19 states that have enacted the model kratom consumer protection act, Illinois not among them, and then says: "Other states, like Illinois, New Hampshire, North Carolina, and Tennessee, have bans in some localities."
Footnote 42 is the part worth reading. It cites the American Kratom Association's web page "Kratom State Legality and Legislation", "Accessed on February 26, 2026." So the line rests on an advocacy group's page as it stood that February. It is not a DEA survey, it gives no number, and it names no Illinois town. Wheaton, Naperville and Marion adopted their rules after that date, and Darien and Bartlett after the notice itself was published.
The notice also says the proposed control "does not preempt more restrictive state law" regarding the consumption of the minor alkaloid and related products, and that the order "will be published in the Federal Register on or after November 13, 2026", the earliest date, not a start date. When we checked on November 9, 2026, no order had been published or placed on public inspection. Kratom leaf and mitragynine are not federally controlled. For the national picture, see our kratom ban tracker.
What an Illinois reader should check
Your town's own text. Read the ordinance in your town's code or council records. Our table is a dated summary; the ordinance is the rule, and a council can amend it.
Your age. State law bars anyone under 18 from buying or possessing kratom, and some towns, Oak Park among them, set 21 for sales. A pending bill that would raise the state age is not law.
Which act is covered. Selling, delivering, advertising and possessing are different acts. When we write that an ordinance does not cover possession, we are describing its text, not suggesting anything.
Safety is a separate question. Whether kratom is legal where you live says nothing about whether it is safe for you. Our page on whether kratom is safe sets out what federal agencies say.
A lawyer for anything personal. A question about your address, your business or a particular product belongs with a lawyer licensed in Illinois. This page is not legal advice, and it is not a guide to buying anything.
Where GRH Kratom stands
GRH Kratom sells kratom products, so the rules on this page touch our business. Our shipping policy names places where our products are "not available for shipment". If you live in a town with a kratom ban, the town's own rule is the one to read, not a seller's list.
If a line here is wrong, or a town has adopted a rule we missed, tell us through our contact page.
When we checked on November 9, 2026, the Illinois places named on our shipping policy and product pages were Alton, Jerseyville and "Edwardsville County". None of the nine towns whose bans this page verifies was among them, we could not confirm any of those three at a government record, and Edwardsville is a city, not a county. We are updating that list.
Questions people ask about kratom in Illinois
Is kratom illegal in Illinois?
Not statewide for adults. The Kratom Control Act makes it illegal for anyone under 18 to buy or possess kratom and for anyone to sell or furnish it to them. Some towns go further. The nine whose bans we could verify at their own records on November 9, 2026 are Naperville, Wheaton, Darien (from November 18, 2026, by our count), Bartlett, Marion, East Alton, Orland Park, Antioch and Lake Zurich.
What does the Naperville kratom ban cover?
Businesses. Since October 1, 2026 it has been unlawful in Naperville "for any business to sell, offer for sale, distribute, or deliver Kratom or any product containing Kratom". Anyone under 18 may not buy, possess or use it there. The ordinance does not address possession or use by adults.
Does any Illinois town ban possessing kratom?
Of the ordinance texts we could read, only East Alton's bans possession by anyone, and its code counts use as possession. Naperville and Darien bar possession by anyone under 18, as state law does, and Marion bars retailers and businesses from possessing kratom. WGLT reported that Bloomington's ordinance covers possession; we did not read it.
How old do you have to be to buy kratom in Illinois?
18, under state law. Some towns set 21 for sales, among them Oak Park, and Naperville did from 2019 until its 2026 ban on businesses. HB4737, HB1303, HB3127 and SB1183 would make 21 the statewide age, but none had passed when we checked on November 9, 2026.
Does DEA's November 13, 2026 date change anything in Illinois?
Not by itself. DEA's notice of October 14, 2026 says an order "will be published in the Federal Register on or after November 13, 2026", the earliest date, not a set one, and none had been published when we checked on November 9, 2026. As proposed, it would control the concentrated minor alkaloid above a threshold. Kratom leaf and mitragynine are not federally controlled.
Disclaimer: this page summarizes Illinois law, Illinois bills, town ordinances and a federal notice as read on November 9, 2026, and links primary sources so you can check them. It is general information, not legal or medical advice, and it does not speak for any government agency or town; a question about a particular product, address or business belongs with a lawyer licensed in Illinois. Statements about botanical products have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration, and no product is intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
