Is Kratom Legal in Illinois?

What law covers kratom in Illinois?

The Kratom Control Act. It’s short, just two sections. Section 5 defines kratom as any part of the Mitragyna speciosa plant, growing or not. It also covers anything made from the plant. That includes mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine, the leaf’s two main alkaloids. Then it sets three rules:

• No one under 18 may knowingly buy or have a product that contains kratom.
• No one under 18 may use a false or altered ID to get it.
• No one may knowingly sell, buy for, hand out samples of or give a kratom product to anyone under 18.

Breaking any of the three is a Class B misdemeanor. Selling or giving kratom to a minor also carries a fine of at least $500.

Kratom isn’t a controlled substance in Illinois. We read all five schedules in the Illinois Controlled Substances Act, and none names kratom or either alkaloid. The legislature’s search of the Illinois Administrative Code finds no rule that names them either.

Does Illinois require anything of a kratom seller?

Only the age limit. A seller can’t sell to anyone under 18. No state law sets a label, a lab test, a license or a registration for kratom. Several pending bills would add those rules. None has passed.

How did Illinois get its kratom law?

It began as a ban. On February 13, 2014, Representative Dennis Reboletti filed House Bill 5526. As filed, it would have put kratom in Schedule I, the strictest of the state’s five lists.

The House changed course before it voted. On April 9, 2014, it adopted an amendment that rewrote the whole bill. The ban was gone. In its place was the Kratom Control Act, an age limit. The House passed it 103 to 0 the next day. The Senate passed it 56 to 0 on May 22. The governor signed it on August 18, 2014, and it took effect January 1, 2015, as Public Act 98-981.

The record doesn’t say why the House changed course.

Which Illinois kratom bills are pending?

Ten, all filed in the 104th General Assembly, the legislature that meets in 2025 and 2026. Four would end legal sales. Six would regulate them. None has passed a committee.

These four would end legal sales:

• Senate Bill 3160, the Kratom Prohibition Act. Senator Cristina Castro filed it on February 2, 2026. It would ban buying, having, selling or distributing any product containing kratom, and repeal the Kratom Control Act. On May 22, 2026, it went back to the Senate’s Assignments Committee.
• House Bill 4930. Representative William Hauter filed it on February 4, 2026. It would bar selling kratom for human use unless the FDA approves it, with civil fines of $10,000 per violation, collected by the attorney general. It covers tianeptine the same way.
• House Bill 3129. Hauter filed it on February 6, 2025. It would add mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine to Schedule III and repeal the Kratom Control Act.
• Senate Bill 1570. Senator Sally Turner filed it on February 4, 2025. It would apply the Act’s rules to everyone, not just minors. Buying, having or selling kratom would become a Class B misdemeanor for anyone.

These six would regulate sales instead:

• House Bill 1303 and Senate Bill 1183. Representative Curtis Tarver filed the House bill on January 13, 2025, and Senator Javier Cervantes filed the Senate bill on January 24. They’d raise the buying age to 21, with age checks for online sales. They’d bar products that appeal to children, add a 5 percent tax on retail sales and repeal the Kratom Control Act.
• House Bill 3127. Hauter filed it on February 6, 2025. It would raise the buying age to 21 and bar selling or advertising kratom within 1,000 feet of a school, playground, park, library and several other places.
• House Bill 3215. Representative Marcus Evans Jr. filed it on February 6, 2025. It would require each kratom product to be registered, with labeling rules.
• House Bill 4737. Evans filed it on January 30, 2026. It would set label rules and a buying age of 21. It would make it a felony to sell a product that mixes kratom with a controlled substance. It would also repeal the Kratom Control Act.
• House Bill 5242. Representative Justin Slaughter filed it on February 5, 2026. Sellers would register with the Department of Public Health. They’d test each batch at an accredited lab and carry product liability insurance.

Three of them, House Bills 1303 and 4737 and Senate Bill 1183, would also bar products made with lab-made kratom alkaloids and limit what home-rule cities could do on kratom.

Which Illinois kratom bills failed?

Nine, filed between 2017 and 2024. Each died when its General Assembly ended. None got a vote on the floor of either chamber.

• House Bill 4106. Representative Katie Stuart filed it on October 3, 2017. It would have applied the Act’s rules to everyone, not just minors.
• House Bill 5657. Representative Martin Moylan filed it on February 14, 2020. It would have put kratom in Schedule II and repealed the Act.
• House Bill 4681 and Senate Bill 3357. Evans and Senator Elgie Sims Jr. filed them in February 2020. Each was a Kratom Consumer Protection Act with a buying age of 18.
• House Bill 4186 and Senate Bill 3948. Evans filed the House bill on October 19, 2021, and Sims filed the Senate bill on January 21, 2022. They’d have let the Department of Public Health fine sellers of mixed or tainted kratom products.
• House Bill 2868 and Senate Bill 1847. Evans and Sims filed the same text again in February 2023. House Bill 2868 got the furthest of any. The House Consumer Protection Committee approved it 9 to 0 on March 7, 2023.
• House Bill 4312. Representative Travis Weaver filed it on December 21, 2023. It would have barred selling or advertising kratom within 1,000 feet of a school, playground, park, library and several other places.

Evans has filed a version of the Kratom Consumer Protection Act in every General Assembly since 2020. The record doesn’t say why any of these bills stopped.

Could Illinois kratom law change?

Yes. Each pending bill needs votes in both chambers and the governor’s signature. Time is short. The state constitution makes the General Assembly one continuous body for a two-year term. The 104th’s term ends when the 105th convenes on the second Wednesday in January, which in 2027 is January 13. In the legislature’s record, a bill that’s pending at that point ends with the entry “Session Sine Die.” It has to be filed again.

Federal action sits above all of it. On October 14, 2026, the DEA published a federal proposal on 7-hydroxymitragynine. It’s a proposal, not a rule, and this page doesn’t state federal law. Illinois law ties its own schedules to federal ones. When a final federal order schedules a drug, the Illinois Department of Human Services is to do the same. It has 30 days from the order’s publication. If neither the department nor an affected party objects in that time, the drug is scheduled in Illinois too. Our page on whether kratom is legal federally tracks the proposal, and the Kratom Legality hub carries every state.

If an Illinois bill moves, the legislature’s own site shows it first. Not a store’s website. Ours included.

Can you order kratom online in Illinois?

Yes, if you’re 21 or older and your address isn’t in a place we don’t ship. Illinois sets one rule for sellers, an age limit of 18, and ours is higher.

We’re based in Arlington, Texas, and Illinois is the eighth-largest state for our orders. We verify age at checkout. Every lab report we publish for our Whole Earth line measures 7-hydroxymitragynine, and you can read them on our lab tests page. We carry kratom powder and kratom capsules from Whole Earth and other brands.

Is kratom legal in the states around Illinois?

In three of the five, yes. Illinois borders Wisconsin, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri and Iowa.

• Wisconsin has listed both main alkaloids in Schedule I since April 25, 2014.
• Indiana has banned kratom since March 15, 2012. It counts the leaf’s two main alkaloids as a synthetic drug.
• Kentucky allows it, but a ban on selling and distributing kratom there takes effect July 1, 2027.
• Missouri and Iowa have no statewide kratom ban.

Kratom bought legally in Illinois falls under Wisconsin or Indiana drug law the moment you cross the line. The law reaches you where you are, not where you bought it. Traveling with kratom covers what that means on a drive and in an airport.

Can a city or village in Illinois ban kratom?

Yes, and many have. The state sets an age limit, and cities and villages have gone further on their own. Some ban only sales. Others ban having or using kratom too. We’ve confirmed each one below in the city’s or village’s own code or records.

Our shipping page keeps the full list of places we don’t ship.

This page covers state law. Cities and counties can add rules of their own, and those rules differ and change.

There’s no reliable way to track every local rule in the country, and we are not going to pretend there is. Check your own city and county before you buy, carry or travel.