Skokie, IL Sign Regulations: Political Signs (2026)

Village of Skokie Code section 90-41, part of Chapter 90 (Streets, Sidewalks and Other Public Places), otherwise reserves every parkway in the village for grass, trees, flowers and Village approved landscaping, and separately makes it unlawful to attach any sign to a tree or landscape material in a public place. Subsection (f) carves out a narrow, election day exception to that no-signage baseline: on official election days, signs relating to candidates for public office, political parties and referenda may be posted in the public right-of-way.

The rule sets a fixed geographic band around every polling place: a sign cannot go up closer than 100 feet to keep the immediate approach clear for voters, and it cannot be planted farther than 300 feet away either, so the exception does not become a license to blanket an entire block with yard signs facing a distant precinct. The section closes the window as fast as it opens it: every sign covered by the exception must be removed when the polls close that same day, so no sign lingers into the next morning under the election day carve-out.

Chapter 90 cross-references Chapter 82, the Village's general sign code, for the broader rules that govern political and other signs on private property and at other times of year; section 90-41(f) applies specifically to the public right-of-way and specifically to election days. Because Skokie is a home rule municipality under Article VII, Section 6 of the Illinois Constitution, the Village Board can regulate its own rights-of-way this precisely without waiting on state authorization, and it has used that authority narrowly rather than banning election day right-of-way signage outright.