Peoria, IL Noise Ordinances: Amplified Music & Outdoor Sound (2026)

Sec. 15-63 is Peoria's dedicated sound-advertising ordinance, distinct from the general Quiet Hours rule in Sec. 15-62. Subsection (a) prohibits producing or reproducing sound through a radio, musical instrument, phonograph, loudspeaker, sound amplifier or similar device for the purpose of commercial advertising or drawing public attention to a building, with no time-of-day carve-out: the prohibition runs around the clock. Subsection (b) targets mobile sound advertising directly, making it unlawful to operate a motor vehicle or horse-drawn vehicle carrying amplification equipment for commercial sound advertising while the equipment is switched on, whether the vehicle is parked or moving through the city.

The only relief valve is subsection (c): sound produced to attract attention to an event that the city, or an entity connected to or sanctioned by the city, has licensed or permitted is exempt, provided the operator complies with the permit's terms. That narrow exception means a business cannot simply obtain a general business license and run a loudspeaker; the sound itself has to be tied to a permitted event. The section traces to the 1957 Code (§§ 20-3, 20-4) and was last amended by Ord.

No. 14314 in 1997. It sits in Article III of Chapter 15 alongside the city's other noise sections (Secs. 15-61 through 15-77), which separately address musical instruments on public streets, radios and phonographs near residential and commercial districts, in-air and on-water amplification, steam whistles, vehicle horns, and engine mufflers, so an advertiser who also plays music risks violating more than one section at once.