Schaumburg, IL Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Sidewalk & Mobile Vending (2026)
Key Facts
- Public-way food vending hours
- Sunup to sunset
- Max stay per spot
- 15 minutes after a sale
- Relocation distance
- At least 1 village block
- School buffer
- 500 feet during school hours (8 a.m.-6 p.m.)
- Extra license
- Food delivery vehicle license, § 110.21
Summary
Schaumburg lets licensed food trucks and vendors sell from the public way between sunup and sunset, but requires them to move on after fifteen minutes at any one location, at least one village block away, under Village Code §§ 119.20-119.21.
No soliciting or peddling shall be permitted before the hour of 9:00 a.m. or after the hour of 9:00 p.m. within the village, provided, however, that vending of food from trucks on the public way shall be permitted between sunup and sunset. ... No peddler, solicitor or vendor may park on public property in a given place for longer than fifteen (15) minutes after the time of their sale or solicitation of an order at that place. After the expiration of said fifteen (15) minutes, they must move on to a different location, which is at least one (1) village block away.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 56 Update 1 | Policy Manual: Supplement 20).
Full Breakdown
Chapter 119 licenses peddlers, solicitors and vendors, including mobile food operators, under § 119.16, with applications going through the village collector under § 119.17 and an annual fee plus per-vehicle charge under § 119.19. Section 119.20 sets the general soliciting and peddling window at 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., but carves out an exception specifically for food: "vending of food from trucks on the public way shall be permitted between sunup and sunset," a materially wider window than other peddling. Once parked, a food truck or vendor cannot simply stay put: § 119.21 caps how long a peddler, solicitor or vendor may remain on public property in one spot after making a sale or taking an order there at fifteen minutes, after which they must relocate at least one full village block away before resuming.
Village Code § 110.21 separately requires a food delivery vehicle license for any vehicle selling or serving previously prepared, individually wrapped food, beverages or uncooked produce (mobile food vending) or preparing food on board (mobile food preparation), layered on top of the peddler/vendor licensing scheme. Ice cream and food vending from vehicles is additionally barred within five hundred feet of any public, private or parochial school between 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on a school day under § 119.01, and § 119.02 bars vending vehicles from using bells, chimes or amplified sound to draw attention on public streets.
Violations & Fines
Vending food on the public way outside the sunup-to-sunset window, or remaining parked at one public location longer than fifteen minutes without relocating a full village block under § 119.21, is a violation subject to the general penalty at § 10.99. Operating without both the peddler/vendor license under § 119.16 and the food delivery vehicle license under § 110.21 is separately unlawful. Selling ice cream or food from a vehicle within 500 feet of a school during school hours violates § 119.01.
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