Illinois has no residential fence cost-sharing statute, so a shared city fence is voluntary. But across Peoria County's farmland, the Illinois Fence Act (765 ILCS 130) binds adjoining rural owners to split a division fence.
For homes in Peoria, Chillicothe, or Bartonville, no law forces a neighbor to pay half of a boundary fence; any split is a private, written agreement, and a survey settles the true line before you build. Farm country is different. Much of Peoria County is corn-and-soybean farmland, and Illinois sits under the population threshold in the statute, so the Illinois Fence Act reaches adjoining tracts of cultivated or enclosed land: each owner must make and maintain a just proportion of the division fence, and township fence viewers can resolve disputes. A fence built purely to spite a neighbor remains a common-law nuisance a court can order removed.
Between rural landowners, a neighbor who refuses their share of a division fence can be assessed by the township fence viewers under the Fence Act. Encroaching or spite fences are resolved in circuit court.
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