Standard Portable Toilet Rental
Single-stall portable toilets for Chicago job sites, block parties and events, delivered and serviced by an independent local provider.
The Loop, Lincoln Park, Lakeview, Pilsen, Oak Park, Evanston, Cicero and Bedford Park
Portable restrooms for your Chicago event or job site, one call away
A street festival with a permit to pull, a build site where the crew has grown, a wedding on a lawn with no bathroom for sixty guests. Call (888) 351-0294, say what the occasion is and where it will be, and you are put through to an independent provider that delivers, services and removes the units.
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- Event, construction and festival ready
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Today in Chicago
Portable restroom placement and unit type choice in Chicago depend on weather, season and crowd size for each event.
Chicago & Cook County
Local portable restroom rental you can reach by phone
Chicago Porta Potty Rental at a glance
Chicago Porta Potty Rental is a call line for portable restroom rental in Chicago and 26 more neighborhoods and suburbs of Cook County. You describe the event or site, and the call is connected to an independent local provider, who sets the quote, delivers the units, services them and takes them away. Units are supplied when a provider can serve.
Chicago is a city that lives on a calendar. The Marathon runs through twenty-nine neighborhoods and puts standard and accessible portable toilets at its aid stations. Lollapalooza fills Grant Park with well over a hundred thousand people a day. The Pride Parade up Broadway and Halsted is expected to bring hundreds of thousands to Lakeview, and more than twenty street festivals fill the weekends between May and September. Every one of them needs somewhere to go, and so does the crane crew on a West Loop tower and the film unit that has shut a block.
Nobody at the other end of this line owns a truck of toilets. Chicago Porta Potty Rental puts you through to an independent portable-sanitation provider, and that provider quotes the job, brings the units, services them while they are on site and collects them afterward. Ask for the quote in writing, and ask the provider what the order includes before you agree to anything.
- How it works
- A call line that connects you with an independent local portable-sanitation provider, who delivers, services and removes the units.
- Service area
- Chicago and nearby areas within 25 km
- Address
- Chicago, IL 60601
- Unit types
- Standard, ADA accessible, flushable restroom trailer, handwash station
- Pricing
- Set by the provider; ask for a written quote
- Service
- The provider delivers, services, and removes the units
Services
Portable restroom services for events, builds and film shoots in Cook County
Pick a service for symptoms, process and typical cost, or call and describe what you hear and see.
ADA Accessible Portable Toilets
Accessible portable toilets for Chicago public events, festivals and work sites, arranged through an independent local provider.
Flushable Restroom Trailers
Restroom trailers with flushing toilets and sinks for Chicago weddings, corporate events and long festival days, from an independent provider.
Handwashing Stations
Freestanding handwash stations for Chicago festivals, food areas and work sites, supplied and serviced by an independent local provider.
Special Event Portable Toilets
Portable toilets for permitted and private Chicago events, with the Park District and city rules we can state and an independent provider to supply them.
Street Festival Toilets
Portable toilets and handwashing for Chicago street festivals and art fairs, placed along closed streets by an independent local provider.
Parade and Crowd Restrooms
Units for parade staging areas, side streets and closed-street crowds, arranged through an independent local provider.
Marathon and Race Toilets
Start-line banks, aid-station units and finish-area restrooms for Chicago races, arranged through an independent local provider.
Wedding Restrooms
Standard units, flushable trailers and handwash add-ons for tented and outdoor weddings, arranged through an independent local provider.
Concert and Stadium Event Toilets
Banks of units, ADA options and handwashing for concert grounds, festival lots and stadium-adjacent events, arranged through an independent provider.
Construction Site Toilets
Site toilets sized to Chicago's plumbing code and OSHA ratios, with servicing and placement arranged through an independent local provider.
High-Rise Construction Toilets
Vertical staging, ground-level banks and the four-story rule for tower sites in the West Loop, River North and the Loop.
Industrial Site Toilets
Portable toilets and handwash for warehouse builds, yard crews and industrial expansions, arranged through an independent local provider.
Long-Term Portable Toilet Rental
Portable toilets and handwash for projects that run for months, arranged through an independent local provider with a standing servicing plan.
Portable Toilet Servicing
What a provider's servicing visit covers, how often to ask for it, and what your crew or event staff should leave alone.
Portable Toilet Delivery and Pickup
What to tell a provider about access, placement and street closures so units reach the right spot in a dense city.
Film Shoot Restrooms
Portable restrooms near base camp for crews filming on Chicago streets, in parks and on private sites, through an independent local provider.
Cold Weather Portable Toilets
What to ask a provider about freezing, wind and winter access when a Chicago site or event runs through the cold months.
Why homeowners call us
Why Chicago Porta Potty Rental
A city of permits and crowds
Chicago Park District permits for large picnics, athletic, corporate and festival events must provide portable toilets, and the city's temporary-event code sets minimum counts. The pages here are written for that, not for a generic field.
Units sized to the occasion
A wedding lawn in Oak Park, a food-booth block in Pilsen and a warehouse build in Franklin Park are different orders. The call goes to a provider that covers your part of Cook County.
Standard, accessible, trailer, handwash
Standard units, accessible units, flushable restroom trailers and handwash stations are all ordinary parts of a rental. Each has its own page explaining what it is and when it is worth asking for.
Quote from the provider, in writing
No price list appears on this site, because no Chicago figure we could verify exists to print. The provider who takes your order gives you the number, and you should have it in writing before the units are sent.
The rules stated as they are
Where Chicago or OSHA publishes a toilet count, the guides quote it. Where we found no rule, the pages say so rather than inventing one, and point you to the city office that decides.
Plain about what we are
This is a call line. It does not own units, drive a route, issue permits or promise a delivery time. What it does is spare you a morning of calls when the event is already on the calendar.
How it works
From phone call to fixed, in four steps
Know the occasion, the place and the crowd
Work out the date, the address or ZIP, roughly how many people will be there, how many hours, and whether food is served. Note whether the ground is grass, pavement or a street closure.
Describe it to the line
Say what the event or site is, where it is and how long you need units. That is enough to connect you with a provider that works in your neighborhood or suburb.
The provider quotes the order
An independent provider asks about access, handwashing needs and servicing, then sends a written quote. Availability for a given date depends on the provider having units available, and no delivery time is promised on the call.
You confirm, the provider delivers and services
Check what the quote includes, confirm any permit your event needs with the city office that issues it, then agree. The provider places the units, services them during the rental and removes them after.
How many portable toilets does a Chicago event need?
Chicago's code for temporary events says toilets must meet the minimum in the Chicago Plumbing Code: more than 30 people present needs at least 2 toilets, and above 600 people there is 1 toilet for every additional 300 people or fraction of 300. Confirm the count for your event with the permit office.
Those are floors, not a comfortable number. A long afternoon with food and drink, or a crowd that arrives all at once, uses toilets differently from a quiet gathering, and a provider can talk through what has worked for similar events.
The how many portable toilets for a Chicago event guide goes through the rule as published and the questions a provider will ask, and special event portable toilets covers the order itself.
Does a Chicago Park District event have to provide portable toilets?
Yes for the larger permit types. The Chicago Park District says picnic levels 3 and 4 and all Athletic, Corporate and Festival or Performance permits must provide portable toilets for participants. Events with 50 or more participants, amplified sound, vending, tents or stages need a permit in the first place.
The permit and its conditions come from the Park District, not from this line or from the provider. The Park District revenue department can be reached at (312) 763-6710, and the Mayor's Office of Special Events at (312) 744-3315 for events on city streets.
The Chicago Park District event permit guide lays out what the rule says and what to ask before you order, and street festival toilets covers closed-block events.
How many toilets does a Chicago construction crew need?
OSHA 29 CFR 1926.51(c) calls for one toilet for 20 or fewer workers, and for more than 20 one toilet seat and one urinal per 40 workers, rising to per 50 at 200 or more. The Chicago Plumbing Code asks at least one per 30 employees. Where they differ, the stricter number governs.
OSHA also wants toilets reachable in under 10 minutes, and a toilet that is not kept sanitary does not count toward the total. The city code adds that in a multi-storey building no floor should be more than four stories from one with toilet facilities, which is why tall builds ask for units on upper levels.
Confirm the number with the project's permit office before you order. The construction site toilet requirements guide goes through the figures, and construction site toilets and high-rise construction toilets cover the two kinds of job.
What does winter do to portable restrooms in Chicago?
Cold makes a difference to how units are set up, serviced and used. Chicago's January average is about 25 degrees Fahrenheit, the record low is minus 27, and wind off Lake Michigan sweeps a flat city. Ask the provider how it handles freezing and wind for your dates.
No Chicago rule on winter freezing or on anchoring units in wind turned up in our research, so this site makes no claim about how any one provider copes. It is a question to put to the provider when you order, and to repeat for an event that straddles a cold snap.
The winter portable toilets guide and the cold-weather portable toilets page cover what to ask.
Service areas
Serving Chicago and all of Cook County
The Loop
ZIP 60601, 60602, 60603, 60604, 60606
South Loop
ZIP 60605
Chinatown
ZIP 60616
West Loop
ZIP 60607, 60661
Near North Side
ZIP 60610, 60611, 60654
Lincoln Park
ZIP 60614
Lakeview
ZIP 60657
Pilsen
ZIP 60608
Hyde Park
ZIP 60615, 60637
Logan Square
ZIP 60647
Rogers Park
ZIP 60626
Wicker Park and West Town
ZIP 60622
Uptown
ZIP 60640
Oak Park
ZIP 60301, 60302, 60303, 60304
Evanston
ZIP 60201, 60202, 60203, 60204, 60208, 60209
Cicero
ZIP 60804
Berwyn
ZIP 60402
Skokie
ZIP 60076, 60077
Forest Park
ZIP 60130
Oak Lawn
ZIP 60453
Bedford Park
ZIP 60499
Maywood
ZIP 60153
Brookfield
ZIP 60513
Bridgeview
ZIP 60455
Franklin Park
ZIP 60131
Melrose Park
ZIP 60160, 60161, 60164
Riverside
ZIP 60546
Chicago, IL 60601 · 25 km service radiusCall (888) 351-0294
Not on the list?
We also cover many smaller communities across Cook County. Check your ZIP.
Job stories
Typical jobs around Cook County
A street festival closes a block of the Loop and the organizer needs toilets and handwashing
- What homeowners notice
- An organizer planning a weekend event on a closed downtown block has a permit application under way and no idea how many toilets to order. Food vendors will be set up along the street, and the crowd will arrive in waves.
- What we do
- A provider asks for the date, the closed stretch, the expected crowd and how trucks can get in. It suggests a mix of standard units, an accessible unit and handwash stations near the food, and quotes servicing during the event.
- What to expect
- The organizer has a written quote that names the unit mix, the servicing and the pickup, and the count is checked against what the Mayor's Office of Special Events and the Chicago Plumbing Code require.
A bar and a block association near the Pride Parade route ask about restrooms for parade day
- What homeowners notice
- A venue near Broadway and Halsted knows the parade brings a very large crowd past its door and wants more toilets for the day. Streets around it will be closed, and a delivery truck cannot count on reaching the block.
- What we do
- A provider asks where units could stand off the route, when the closures begin and who on the block needs access. The quote says when units are placed and collected, and how servicing is handled while the streets are shut.
- What to expect
- The venue gets a written plan that fits the closures, and a clear answer on what the provider can and cannot promise for parade day.
A community group in Pilsen plans a cheering block along the Marathon course
- What homeowners notice
- A neighborhood group wants to host a viewing block with food and music where the course passes through Pilsen. It needs somewhere for volunteers and spectators to go and is not sure what a small group may set up.
- What we do
- A provider asks about the footprint, how many people are expected, where units can stand and how the group will reach them. It suggests checking with the city office about the event and quotes standard and accessible units with handwashing.
- What to expect
- The group knows which office to call before ordering, and has a written quote it can match against whatever conditions the city sets.
One call and it gets handled.
Most portable restroom rental calls are scheduled the same day when a technician is free, and you approve the price before any work starts.
Guides
Answers before you call
Portable Toilet Rental Cost in Chicago: What Moves a Quote
A portable toilet quote in Chicago is built from five things: the unit type, how many units, how long they stay, how often a provider services them, and how hard the site is to reach.
How Many Portable Toilets Does a Chicago Event Need?
Under the Chicago Plumbing Code as applied to temporary events, a gathering with more than 30 people present needs at least 2 toilets, and once it passes 600 people it needs 1 more toilet for every additional 300 people or fraction of 300.
Chicago Park District Event Permits and Portable Toilets
Under the Chicago Park District's Special Event Permit rules, picnic levels 3 and 4 and all Athletic, Corporate and Festival/Performance permits must provide portable toilets for participants.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Who actually delivers and services the units when I call this number?
An independent local portable-sanitation provider. Chicago Porta Potty Rental is a call line that connects you with one that covers your area, and that provider quotes the order, delivers and services the units and removes them. The arrangement is explained on the About page.
Can you get a toilet to my event tomorrow?
Possibly, when a provider can serve, but no delivery time or same-day arrival is promised on the call. Big weekends are busy for every provider, so the safe move is to call as soon as the date and location are fixed.
Do I need an accessible unit?
For a public event, an accessible unit belongs in the order, and Chicago Marathon aid stations each carry standard and ADA portable toilets. We found no Chicago figure for how many, so ask the permit office and the provider. See the page on ADA accessible portable toilets.
What is the difference between a portable toilet and a restroom trailer?
A portable toilet is a single self-contained stall. A flushable restroom trailer is a towed unit with several stalls, usually chosen for weddings, corporate events and long festival days. The trailer page explains the trade-offs without quoting sizes or prices.
Does the call cost anything?
The line is simply how you reach a provider. Any charge for the rental, delivery, servicing and pickup comes from the provider, and you should ask what the quote covers and get the price in writing before you agree.
Does a block party or backyard event need anything special?
It depends on the size and where it is held. A small private party is different from a closed street or a park event, which need permits from the city or the Park District. The wedding and backyard party guide helps you sort which case you are in.