Cook County
Cook County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Division
In short
Cook County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Division issues 2 permits we publish for Cook County, last verified 2026-09-27. Each carries the fee as the agency publishes it, with a link to the schedule it was read from.
What this agency issues
| Permit | Issuing agency | Fee | Renews | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Temporary Food Service Establishment Permitonly if it applies to you | Cook County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Division | $25 per day of operation, printed directly on the CCDPH application form | per event; charged per day of operation | 2026-09-27 |
| Retail Tobacco Licenseonly if it applies to you | Cook County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Division | $200 a year, covers the license and one vending machine; each additional vending machine adds $35 | annual, calendar year (January 1 – December 31); a new retailer must obtain the license before selling tobacco products, with no proration, and renewal is due by December 31 for the following year | 2026-09-27 |
Fees shown as a range or formula are set that way by the issuing agency — we do not average them into a single number.
About each permit
Temporary Food Service Establishment Permit
A restaurant, coffee shop or food truck operating a one-off or pop-up food service at an event needs this CCDPH permit anywhere in suburban or unincorporated Cook County — Chicago runs its own separate temporary-food-permit process instead, and a business straddling both needs both permits. The $25-per-day fee is printed directly on CCDPH's own application form. This is distinct from CCDPH's permanent Retail Food Establishment License and from its Mobile Food Vendor permit, both of which cover ongoing operation rather than a single event, and whose own fee tiers are not shown here.
Retail Tobacco License
This license's scope is corrected from an earlier pass, which placed it among CCDPH's broader suburban-plus-unincorporated food and environmental programs. It is not one of those: CCDPH's own Retail Tobacco License application states the Cook County Youth Tobacco Control Ordinance 'applies to retailers of tobacco products in unincorporated Cook County,' and it is codified in Chapter 54 alongside the unincorporated-only General Business License and Alarm Permit, not under the state Food-Code-style delegation that gives CCDPH's food, pool and body-art programs their suburban reach. A retailer inside Chicago or any other incorporated suburb is licensed by that municipality instead. The fee is $200 a year, covering the license and one vending machine, with $35 added per additional vending machine. Selling tobacco products without the required license carries a fine of $500 or more under Sec. 54-303(b)(2).
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Cook County
- Phone
- 708-974-7107
- Website
- cookcountypublichealth.org/
Contact details are taken from the agency’s own site or its published fee schedule. Where we have not verified a phone number we leave it blank rather than guess.
Sources
Every fee and term above was read from one of these government pages on the date shown.
- Application for Temporary Food Service Establishment PermitCook County Department of Public Health · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-27
- Retail Tobacco License — Instructions and ApplicationCook County Department of Public Health · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-27
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