Garage-sale signs are allowed on your own property in Champaign County as temporary signs under the county zoning ordinance and city sign codes, with size and time limits. Off-premise directional signs in the road right-of-way or on utility poles are prohibited and removed.
A sign advertising a yard or garage sale on private property is treated as temporary signage — allowed without a separate permit, within size limits, and removed after the event. The trouble is the directional signs people stake at intersections to steer buyers. In unincorporated Champaign County the Zoning Ordinance governs, and in Champaign, Urbana, and Rantoul the home-rule sign code does; all of them prohibit signs in the public road right-of-way and on utility poles, and city or IDOT crews remove them. IDOT controls signs along state highway rights-of-way. Keep directional signs on private land with the owner's permission, and take them down once the sale ends.
Signs on utility poles or in the road right-of-way are removed by the city, county, or IDOT. Signs left up after the sale are treated as abandoned; repeat roadside placement can draw a citation.
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