Illinois Golf Cart Laws (2026): Local Ordinances, 35 MPH Streets and LSVs
In Illinois a golf cart is a "non-highway vehicle": banned from every public street unless the city, village, township or county that controls it passes an ordinance allowing it, and even then only on streets posted 35 mph or less. Here is what 625 ILCS 5/11-1426.1 requires (a licensed driver, liability insurance, lights, turn signals, reflectors and a slow-moving vehicle emblem), how local permits work, and why titled LSVs may use any street posted 30 mph or less.