Cicero, IL Sign Regulations: Garage Sale Signs (2026)

Section 26-172(b)(5), part of the town's house, garage and rummage sale permit rules, sets specific placement and removal standards for advertising signage. All signs advertising a permitted sale must be located in the front yard area of the premises where the sale is held. The subsection separately bans placing sale signs, handbills, or other advertising materials in or upon any public parkway, building, or other public property anywhere in the town, meaning a seller cannot stake a sign in the parkway strip along the street, attach one to a utility pole, or post one on town property away from the sale address.

Removal is time-bound: any sign posted to advertise the sale must come down no later than the day immediately following the sale, so a two-day sale's signage cannot linger on the property once the sale period specified on the permit has ended. The permit itself, issued by the town clerk's office under Section 26-172(a), must also be posted in the front yard area where it is easily visible to the public for the duration of the sale. window, a sign violation is enforced alongside those other permit conditions rather than under the town's separate general sign code chapter.