Orland Park Officials Reach License Settlement Deal With Sky Zone

ORLAND PARK, IL ­— Orland Park Village officials have reached a settlement that allows the Sky Zone trampoline park to renew its business license but that requires the business to adhere to strict guidelines to remain open.

The village announced the settlement on Tuesday, 15 months after an incident at the Orland Park Sky Zone location prompted the village to suspend the business’s license. Sky Zone ended up suing the Village after village officials voted to revoke the business’s license — a decision that was later upheld by a vote of the Board of Trustees before a Cook County judge urged the village to reconsider its decision.

On Tuesday, the village announced the settlement that puts eight new measures into place in order for Sky Zone to remain operating at its location at 66 Orland Square. The settlement comes several months after a Cook County Circuit Court judge agreed Sky Zone had violated the village cod during an incident in Sept. 2020 when more than 800 people were inside the venue but encouraged the village to reconsider its decision to revoke the business’s license.

Under the terms of the settlement, Sky Zone must permanently follow what the village calls “rigid, rigorous and stringent conditions” at its Orland Park location. The conditions include:

• Sky Zone will close the park at 9:00 p.m. each Friday, Saturday and Sunday
• Sky Zone will hire a security firm to work each Friday, Saturday and Sunday evening from 7:00 p.m. to close
• Sky Zone will no longer host “Glow Nights,” events which involves turning off the nights and using black lights and lasers
• Sky Zone will not exceed the State Fire Marshall occupancy level for the entire premises, inclusive of staff at any time
• Sky Zone will continue to track on its system all individuals inside the park
• Sky Zone will maintain a staff to guest ratio at all times of no less than 1:20
• Sky Zone will continue to hire a lot sweeping company to regularly clean the parking lot and the outdoor areas
• Sky Zone will continue to contract with its waste management company to empty its outdoor waste receptacle at least three times a week.

Village officials said Tuesday that the conditions were not in place when the 2020 incident took place and that put a number of children at risk and when four people were arrested following the lock-in event. The settlement calls for the conditions to remain in place permanently and states that if Sky Zone violates any laws, whether it be local, state or federal, the village will take the “necessary steps” to revoke or suspend Sky Zone’s license to operate in Orland Park.

“We anticipate and expect that Sky Zone will act as a responsible corporate citizen going forward, but if it again violates the Village Code provisions that are meant to protect the health, safety and welfare of the community, we will once again take the necessary and appropriate steps to remedy that situation” Orland Park Mayor Keith Pekau said in a statement.