Political signs are allowed on private property across Peoria County. The county Unified Development Ordinance and the Peoria, Chillicothe, and Bartonville sign codes treat them as temporary signs with size limits; content-based rules are unconstitutional after Reed v. Gilbert. Signs in the road right-of-way get removed.
In unincorporated Peoria County, signs fall under the county Unified Development Ordinance, administered by Planning and Zoning; political and other temporary signs are allowed on private property within size limits, and a yard sign generally needs no permit. Inside Peoria, Chillicothe, or Bartonville, the municipal sign code applies instead. The catch is placement off your own land: yard signs, including political signs, may not be placed in the public road right-of-way or on utility poles, and city or county crews remove them. IDOT clears signs along state highway rights-of-way under the Highway Advertising Control Act (225 ILCS 440). Since Reed v. Town of Gilbert (2015), no local government may single out a sign for stricter treatment because of its message.
A political sign in a county or state road right-of-way is removed by the county or IDOT. Oversized or off-premise signs draw a zoning correction notice.
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