Does an open LUST cleanup near a Illinois property affect a sale?

An open cleanup on or near a parcel is what a lender's Phase I environmental site assessment flags, usually weeks into a deal. The public record is available on day one: 5,925 of Illinois's 25,336 recorded leak incidents are still open, and each one has a location, a status and a reporting date.

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Leaking underground storage tanks in Illinois

Name: Illinois leaking underground storage tank (LUST) incidents (EPA UST Finder)
Creator: UST Check
License: https://ustcheck.com/tos/

Leak (LUST) incidents Illinois's tank program has reported to EPA — what is still in cleanup, and what the state has closed. Data vintage 2024-12-04.

25,336leak incidents on record

5,925cleanups still open

19,411closed — No Further Action

23.4%share still open

2018most recent report

Illinois cities with the most open cleanups

City	Leak incidents	Cleanups still open
Chicago	4,057	951
Rockford	386	73
Springfield	367	72
Aurora	246	64
Cicero	174	54
East St. Louis	105	51
Waukegan	239	50
Peoria	221	50
Belleville	173	48
Decatur	241	45
Elgin	192	45
Arlington Heights	182	44
Des Plaines	244	42
Joliet	180	40
Bloomington	159	40
Harvey	102	39
Danville	117	37
Granite City	106	33
Naperville	186	31
Addison	155	30
Oak Park	109	29
Champaign	133	27
Galesburg	110	27
Skokie	211	26
Elmhurst	160	26
Mt. Vernon	122	26
Evanston	149	25
Effingham	112	25
Palatine	120	24
Marion	86	24
Maywood	64	24
Lombard	116	23
Barrington	89	23
Wheeling	126	22
Berwyn	88	22
Carbondale	85	22
Ottawa	69	22
Centralia	80	21
Mattoon	78	21
Canton	39	21

Illinois counties with the most open cleanups

EPA's county rollup. Each county page adds the tank inventory — registered facilities, open and closed tanks.

County	Leak incidents	Cleanups still open
Cook	9,809	2,017
Lake	1,450	362
DuPage	1,851	297
St. Clair	561	196
Madison	606	179
Kane	805	174
Will	609	123
Sangamon	455	105
Peoria	320	92
Winnebago	499	89
McLean	315	86
Champaign	368	84
LaSalle	325	83
Rock Island	310	70
McHenry	338	68
Vermilion	206	64
Macon	307	62
DeKalb	204	55
Tazewell	227	47
Knox	142	47
Marion	142	46
Henry	157	44
Jackson	140	43
Fulton	102	43
Williamson	149	41
Effingham	153	39
Macoupin	133	39
Jefferson	150	37
Ogle	143	37
Bureau	115	37
Kankakee	168	36
Franklin	120	36
Montgomery	111	35
Whiteside	117	34
Livingston	110	33
McDonough	95	31
Stephenson	106	30
Lee	101	30
Iroquois	98	30
Jo Daviess	91	30

Most recently reported leaks in Illinois

Reported	Site	City	Substance	Status
2018-10-19	City Water Light & Power	Springfield	UsedOil	Open
2018-10-18	Synergy Creative, Inc.	Chicago	not reported	Open
2018-10-18	SPG Green Garden Country Club	Frankfort	Gasoline Diesel	Open
2018-10-17	Stop-N-Go, Inc.	Rochelle	Diesel	Open
2018-10-16	Evanston Gateway, LLC	Evanston	Gasoline	Open
2018-10-16	Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central IL	Peoria	not reported	Open
2018-10-12	GPM Midwest, LLC	Lombard	Gasoline	Open
2018-10-12	Meyer Steel Drum, Inc.	Chicago	not reported	Open
2018-10-11	DeLong Company, Inc.	Minooka	Diesel	Open
2018-10-11	Shell Oil Company	Prospect Heights	Gasoline	Open
2018-10-10	Commonwealth Edison	Chicago	not reported	Open
2018-10-10	Luckey Trucking Company	Streator	Diesel	Open
2018-10-09	Evirons Lincoln Holdings, LLC	Chicago	FuelOil UsedOil	Open
2018-10-08	North Riverside Gas Mart, Inc.	North Riverside	UsedOil	Open
2018-10-05	Bimbo QSR Chicago, LLC	Chicago	not reported	Open
2018-10-05	Chicago Transit Authority	Chicago	Gasoline	Open
2018-10-05	Gem Stop, Inc.	Loraine	Diesel	Open
2018-10-04	G&S Oil Company	Plainfield	Gasoline Diesel	Open
2018-10-03	HPG Holding, Inc.	Aurora	Gasoline Diesel	Open
2018-10-03	Arrow Road Construction Company	Algonquin	Gasoline Diesel	Open

Screen a specific Illinois address

State counts set the context; a deal needs the record around one parcel — registered tanks on it, facilities within 500 and 1,500 feet, leak cleanups with status and distance, every line cited to the official record. Same data a Phase I environmental assessment starts from, in your hands before the offer.

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Tank inventory for Illinois — registered facilities, open and closed tanks, county by county — is on the Illinois county tables.

This is a screen of EPA-registered tank and leak records, not an environmental site assessment. State registries are incomplete by design: tanks removed before 1986 and most residential heating-oil tanks were never registered, so a clean screen cannot prove the absence of a tank. "Closed" means a tank was taken out of service per the registry — it does not certify that no contamination remains. EPA's LUST layer carries a county field for some states and not others, so city is the primary breakdown here; the county table is EPA's own county rollup.

source: EPA UST Finder EPA data vintage 2024-12-04