Palos Park to Accept Payments Via Credit Cards

Get ready to swipe because Palos Park will soon be accepting credit cards as a method of payment to the village.

On Sept. 13 the village board voted 5-0 in favor of allowing residents to use credit cards to pay for water bills, building permits and a variety of other village related expenses.

"This is meant as a convenience to village residents as an alternate payment method," Mayor John Mahoney said.

Palos Park residents had been requesting the ability to pay by credit cards for some time, Mahoney said.

Card readers will be installed at the village hall and police station. Eventually, residents will be able to go online and pay their water bills through the village's website, said Rick Boehm, village administrator.

There is no definite timeline for instillation of the card readers, but Boehm said it would be fairly soon.