Sign Regulations in Macon County, IL (2026)

2 rules for unincorporated Macon County, Illinois.

Verified from official government sources

Note: These county rules apply to unincorporated areas of Macon County. If you live within an incorporated city, that city's own rules apply: see the city list below.

Digital Billboards

Macon County's zoning code never uses the phrase 'digital billboard,' but it regulates any sign whose light is not constant: § 155.184(B)(8) folds billboards into its front-yard sign rules and bans revolving beacons and any sign with exterior, brilliant, intermittent, rotating, or flashing lights within 50 feet of an R (residential) District boundary in unincorporated Macon County.

Digital Billboard & Flashing Sign Rules, Macon County

Some Restrictions

Macon County Code § 155.184(B)(8)(i)-(j)

(i) No billboard, poster, flag, pennant, streamer, outdoor display or other advertising device not meeting the requirements above shall be permitted. (j) Revolving beacons which resemble traffic control devices or emergency vehicle signs shall not be used. No signs employing exterior, brilliant, intermittent, rotating, or flashing lights shall be permitted within 50 feet of the bou...

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Freeway-Facing Signs

In the interchange areas the county's overlay zoning covers near freeway ramps in unincorporated Macon County, Macon County Code § 155.166(H)(8) bars every sign except traffic-control and directory signs within 660 feet of the freeway right-of-way, caps any remaining interchange-area sign at 300 square feet, and bars billboards or other large advertising signs from the interchange area outright.

Freeway Interchange Sign Limits, Macon County

Significant Restrictions

Macon County Code § 155.166(H)(8)

(8) Outdoor advertising. There shall be no signs, with the exception of traffic control and directory signs, within 660 feet of the freeway right-of- way. The following restrictions shall apply to the remainder of the interchange area plus any other restrictions for outdoor advertising for that agricultural district. ... (e) No sign should contain more than 300 square feet of area. (f) No...

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