Tazewell County, IL Home Business: Zoning & Home Occupation Permits (2026)

052 permits a home occupation in any residential or agriculture district only if it satisfies all eleven listed conditions. The business cannot run out of a garage, barn, or other accessory building (A); it must show no exterior sign of its existence beyond one sign that cannot be illuminated, cannot cross the lot line, and cannot exceed two square feet (B, C); it cannot receive deliveries by anything larger than a passenger vehicle or standard parcel carrier (D); and all activity must happen inside the dwelling and be performed only by family members who live there (E).

m. (I). 052(K) lists examples of permissible occupations, such as art studios, one-chair barber shops, professional offices, seamstress work, single-pupil music or dance instruction, and repair of watches, clocks, computers, and small household appliances, though the list is non-exclusive. 600(B)(1). A use that exceeds any of these limitations is redefined under the code's definitions section as a HOME COMMERCIAL use, which can only proceed with special-use approval from the Zoning Board of Appeals rather than as a by-right home occupation.