Political signs are allowed on private property across Champaign County. The county zoning ordinance and the Champaign, Urbana, and Rantoul 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 Champaign County, signs fall under the county Zoning Ordinance, administered by the Department of 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 Champaign, Urbana, or Rantoul, the home-rule city sign code applies instead. The catch is placement off your own land: signs staked in a public road right-of-way or on utility poles are prohibited and removed, and 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 here 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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