7-4-6: SPEED RESTRICTIONS:

   A.   General Restrictions: Provisions of 625 Illinois Compiled Statutes 5/11-601 and 5/11-606 shall apply. (2009 Code)

   B.   Specific Speed Limits Established:

      1.   Streets: The maximum speed limit on all streets in the city shall be twenty five (25) miles per hour. The twenty five (25) mile per hour speed limit shall not apply to streets for which another maximum speed limit has been declared and established by the city council when appropriate signs giving notice of such other speed limits are erected at the proper place or along the proper part or zone of such street. Traffic control devices in the form of speed limit signs giving reasonable notice of this speed limit shall be placed and maintained at the major or principal public way entrances to the city, as follows:

Street And Direction Sign Facing On Street	At Or Near Its Intersection With
Green Bay Road, facing northwestbound traffic	Prairie Avenue
Highwood Avenue, facing westbound traffic	Easterly limits of the city
Lakeview Avenue, facing northbound traffic	Walker Avenue
Llewellyn Avenue, facing eastbound traffic	Western Avenue
Old Trail, facing eastbound traffic	Western Avenue
Prairie Avenue
Facing eastbound traffic	Western Avenue
Facing westbound traffic	Green Bay Road
Sheridan Road, facing southeastbound traffic	Washington Avenue
Walker Avenue, facing westbound traffic	Easterly city limits of the city
Washington Avenue, facing westbound traffic	Sheridan Road
Waukegan Avenue, facing northwestbound traffic	Southerly limits of the city
Western Avenue
Facing northbound traffic	Prairie Avenue
Facing southbound traffic	Prairie Avenue

 

(Ord. 2003-O-63, 11-4-2003)

      2.   Alleys: No person shall drive a vehicle upon any alley within the city in excess of ten (10) miles per hour, whether posted or unposted. (Ord. 75-O-15, 11-21-1975)

   C.   Passing Schools: Provisions of 625 Illinois Compiled Statutes 5/11-606 shall apply. (2009 Code)