Joliet, IL Soliciting & Door-to-Door: No-Knock Registry (2026)

Section 22-64, in Chapter 22's peddlers and itinerant merchants article, gives residents a formal opt-out from door-to-door sales calls. ' The ordinance specifies the sign's minimum size, at least three and three-quarters inches long and three and three-quarters inches wide, and its minimum print size, no smaller than 48-point type, so a handwritten sticky note or tiny label doesn't satisfy the rule. Once that placard is placed and maintained, Section 22-64 makes it unlawful for any peddler to enter, or attempt to enter, the premises.

A related but separate rule sits in Chapter 22's canvassers-and-solicitors article: Section 22-38 requires door-to-door callers to first register with the chief of police and obtain a registration permit before calling at any residence without the occupant's prior consent, and it independently bars calling on a residence that displays any no-soliciting notice, at least four inches by two inches, reading 'Solicitors Prohibited,' 'No Soliciting,' 'No Canvassing' or similar language. Together, the two sections cover both peddlers selling goods on the spot and canvassers or solicitors taking orders for future delivery, and both hinge on the resident posting a visible sign rather than requiring an outright registry the city itself maintains. , or on Sundays at all, regardless of whether a sign is posted.