Jacksonville yard sale signups still open, May 8 deadline approaching

Jacksonville homeowners still have a narrow window to get on the list for the citywide yard sale before the May 8 deadline closes signups and leaves their address off the map.

The annual event is set for Memorial Day weekend, May 23 through May 25, and the Jacksonville Area Convention and Visitors Bureau says participants can have their addresses published for free in the Jacksonville Journal-Courier and The Source newspaper. For families clearing garages, selling furniture, clothes, tools and other household goods, the listing is the difference between being easy to find and being overlooked.

That makes the deadline matter well beyond the households setting up tables. A citywide yard sale works only when enough addresses sign up to give shoppers a full route through Jacksonville, including the downtown area and neighborhoods spread across town. More listed stops can mean more people making a day of it, more weekend traffic on local streets and more eyes on nearby businesses as bargain hunters move from one sale to the next.

The 2025 listing for the event called it the fifth annual Jacksonville citywide yard sale, a sign that the spring sale has become a recurring part of the city’s calendar rather than a one-time promotion. Interested participants were told to call or text their name and address to 217-720-1638, a simple step that gets them included in the published list.

Jacksonville’s official city website shows the same seasonal pattern in other ways, with a spring events calendar and public-service announcements that include a March 16 city-wide cleanup. Together, those listings point to a familiar warm-weather cycle in Morgan County: clean out, reuse and put usable items back into circulation before summer fully arrives.

For shoppers, the event creates a short-lived window to plan a route around Jacksonville. For residents, it is a chance to turn extra belongings into cash while the city’s spring cleanup rhythm is still in full swing.