For the first time since 2016, the Chicago Residential Landlord and Tenant Ordinance has been amended. By a vote of 35-15, the City Council passed Mayor’s second draft of the measure. At the Building’s committee a week earlier upon only a few hours notice, the Mayor presented an amendment to the proposal she originally introduced on May 20, 2020 which contained even more anti-landlord provisions. That version was
Notice of Intent not to Renew
Details on Mayor’s Proposed Change to 5-12-130(j) Notice of Non-Renewal
Covid-19 Change or Just a Change?
UPDATE: A version of this law has passed the City Council. Today, May 20, 2020, Mayor Lightfoot has introduced a measure to radically change, dare I say, hundreds of years of common law and forty years of Chicago law with respect to the termination of a lease and/or a tenancy. These rules may be INSPIRED by Covid-19, but there is no indication that they will be repealed or removed once the threat of the Coronavirus is just a memory. The proposed ordinance will change the amount of advance notice landlords need to give to tenants to terminate a lease or tenancy and to introduce new requirements that landlords provide relocation assistance (a nice thing to call a payment) to tenants. Let’s take a dive into the proposed law.