Chicago Porta Potty Rental

Our Chicago service area is the whole of Cook County. Our local crews handle delivery, weekly servicing and pickup everywhere in it, from job sites in the Loop to backyard parties on the Far South Side, and same-day delivery is available.

Chicago has 77 community areas, and we deliver to all of them, including Rogers Park, Uptown, Lake View, Lincoln Park, Logan Square, Humboldt Park, West Town, Austin, the Loop, Bridgeport, Pullman, Hyde Park, South Shore, Beverly, Morgan Park and Edgewater. See all service areas for our other cities.

Planning something in a spot not listed here? Call (872) 326-9200 or chat with us now.

The Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) runs free concerts at Millennium Park, home of the Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Crown Fountain, Lurie Garden and Cloud Gate. It also presents Taste of Chicago, the Chicago Blues Festival, Chicago SummerDance, the Chicago Jazz Festival and the World Music Festival.

Chicago’s summer festivals use Millennium Park, Grant Park and other local venues. The Chicago Park District lists more special event venues, including:

• 31st Street Harbor and Northerly Island
• Promontory Point and Ping Tom Park
• South Shore Cultural Center
• Garfield Park Conservatory and Lincoln Park Conservatory
• Columbus Park Refectory and Douglass Park Cultural & Community Center
• Clark Park Boathouse, Berger Park and 63rd Street Beach House

Federal OSHA sets the construction porta potty count for a Chicago job site: 1 toilet for up to 20 workers, 1 toilet seat and 1 urinal per 40 workers from 20, and 1 per 50 workers from 200. Weekly servicing keeps a long job supplied.

Illinois’ state OSHA plan covers only state and local government workers, so private construction in Chicago follows federal OSHA. A site without a sanitary sewer may use chemical toilets under 29 CFR 1926.51(c)(3), unless local codes prohibit them.

A special event permit from DCASE is required for a temporary structure in the Chicago public way used for a special event. Violations carry a fine of $200 to $1,000 each under Municipal Code 10-8-335, and the sponsor pays it.

Chicago also sets event toilet counts. With more than 30 people present, you need at least 2 toilets. Past 600 people, add 1 more per additional 300 people or fraction.

At least 5 percent of the toilets, and no fewer than one, must be accessible in most cases. The DCASE accessibility guidance for outdoor events also calls for accessible portable restrooms on site, so add an ADA portable toilet to your event order.

A Chicago porta potty rental needs no building permit, but a unit on the public way raises a separate permit question. The city’s list of work needing no building permit includes installing, maintaining or removing a temporary non-sewer-type toilet, and temporary means 180 days or less.

The Chicago Department of Buildings page also says a temporary or permanent structure of any size on a public street, alley, sidewalk or parkway “generally requires” a separate public way use permit from the Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection (BACP). It does not say whether a portable toilet counts, and it gives no application steps or cost, so ask BACP before you place a unit there. Tell us the spot when you call, and we will plan delivery around it.