Illinois renters who need financial assistance may see relief from the Illinois Housing Development Authority (IHDA) as it reopens a statewide rental payment assistance program on Monday, December 6, according to a press release from the IDHA. The Illinois Rental Payment Program (ILRPP) has set...
The familiar refrain in Chicago is that the summer months are so enjoyable because residents need to suffer through the winter in order to get there. But winter in Chicago doesn’t need to feel as miserable as the forecast sometimes suggests. Functioning heating and cooling systems, then, are an...
The business of being a Chicago apartment landlord has always been a serious one, but fluctuations to rental prices in 2021 have produced a serious question for these times: “Am I charging enough for my Chicago apartment in 2022?”
First, to unpack this question a bit, if a...
The office of Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker announced that the statewide eviction moratorium will be re-issued and extended through October 3, 2021. The governor's office also clarified in the latest announcement that the...
All Cook County landlords should be aware of the Just Housing Amendment to the Human Rights Ordinance, which went into effect on January 1, 2020 and which seeks to remedy unfair housing discrimination against individuals with criminal records. We’ve written about the...
Beware, Chicago Airbnb, HomeAway and VRBO tycoons, because the carefree days of operating an illegal Chicago vacation rental are over. In 2016 and 2017, then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the City Council amended the Municipal Code to better regulate and tax vacation rentals and shared housing units....
Before the novel Coronavirus reached Chicago, a landlord’s public health dilemmas were somewhat mundane, like whether to allow smoking or pets (other than...
At the onset of stay-at-home orders in March 2020, many landlords had to quickly roll out alternative plans for showing vacant apartments in Chicago. The go-to solution was virtual showings, where a live video call or pre-recorded...
During the spring of 2020, as Illinois residents hunkered down to try to slow the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, furlough notices and job losses started to lead to late or missing rent payments. Initially, Mayor Lightfoot asked property owners to “give tenants some grace, whenever possible...
