Peoria County, IL Parking Rules: Overnight Parking (2026)

7(5) provides that no more than four automobiles in total, parked accessory to a dwelling unit, may sit outside on the same lot as the dwelling, or on an adjacent property under the same ownership, for more than seventy-two continuous hours. The seventy-two-hour clock runs continuously, so the standard restricts total accumulated outdoor vehicles on the lot rather than any single car's isolated parking duration alone. 7(6), which confines where those permitted vehicles can sit: anywhere on the lot except the front setback, where cars are limited to the driveway or a nine-foot-wide all-weather strip parallel to it.

Vehicles kept indoors, in a garage or other enclosed structure, do not count toward the four-car outdoor limit, since the section only restricts what sits outside on the lot. The limit exists to prevent a residential lot from functioning as informal long-term vehicle storage, and it applies on top of the county's separate ban on parking on a vacant lot unless that lot is under common ownership with an adjoining developed parcel.