Cicero, IL Sidewalk & Pedestrian Rules: Obstruction Rules (2026)

Sec. 82-24, 'Storage on walks,' makes it unlawful to use any street, alley, sidewalk or other public place in Cicero for storing goods, wares or merchandise, or for placing any sign. Anything displayed, stored or placed in violation is subject to immediate removal by the town without notice, and the owner cannot retrieve the confiscated property without first paying every cost of removal and storage plus any fine. The section separately addresses deliveries: a person receiving or delivering goods may not let them sit on a sidewalk or in a street for more than two hours, and while doing so must occupy only enough of the outer edge of the sidewalk in front of the store to leave a reasonable, unobstructed path free of skids for pedestrians.

The chapter's broader enforcement tool sits in Sec. 82-31, which authorizes the superintendent of public works or any town officer to remove any obstruction or encroachment violating chapter 82 after notice to the owner, agent or occupant, and to summarily remove it if that person cannot be found, billing the responsible party for every expense of removal. Related sections fill in specific obstruction scenarios: Sec. 82-13 lets the superintendent of police order disabled or abandoned vehicles blocking a sidewalk removed after six hours' notice, and Sec.

82-14 requires anyone whose structure, fence, porch or steps encroaches on a public sidewalk to remove it within 30 days of written notice from the board of trustees or have it declared a nuisance and torn down at the owner's expense.