anachronistLogan Square landlord evicts tenant for flying Palestine flag
seathruFishman sent her maintenance man to deliver a ten-day eviction notice to her door.
Yeah, that’s not legal. Hope the tenant finds a good lawyer.
Mun. Code Ch. 5-12-170: Under the 2020 revisions of the RLTO (“Fair Notice Ordinance”), Landlords must provide a tenant that is not in the eviction process: • 30 days of notice to terminate a month-to-month tenancy, decline to renew your lease or raise your rent if you have lived in your apartment for less than six months. • 60 days of notice for the same if you have lived in your apartment for more than six months but less than three years.
One of the high-points in my life was having a landlord show up with the local sheriffs to try and force an eviction that up until this point had only been verbal. I happily showed them the state’s tenant laws that said “30 days after written notice is provided” and had a lawyer friend on speed dial if they had any questions. Landlord got so belligerent that the sheriffs escorted them off instead.
Ten day notice can be given under certain conditions, see ILCS 5-9/210 and Chicago municipal code 5-12-130
(Note that notice means an eviction proceeding will start in ten days, it will take considerably longer for the courts to send a sheriff out to enforce it).