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Cook County cancels evictions for the week of January 5, 2015

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cancelweek2015Bad weather cancels Cook Co. evictions this week

As I wrote about yesterday, the weather outside is frightful.  And when the weather gets frightful, the circuit court’s general order tends to turn off the eviction spigot.  And in response, the Sheriff has updated his website.  If you look at yesterday’s post, you will see that the Sheriff’s website indicated that “pursuant to court order, all residential real estate evictions shall cease effective 12-18-14 thru 1-5-15”.  That has been replaced with the following (see highlighted area):

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2014 Eviction Moratorium Scheduled

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A Screeching Halt to Evictions The Cook County general order establishing an eviction moratorium for the winter of 2014/15 has been entered.  There will be no evictions enforced by the Sheriff of Cook County from December 18, 2014 through January 2, 2015 (which means that the evictions will resume on January 5, 2015). Good luck … Read more

Local writer continues crusade against Monique Davis as Eviction-Reform bill passes first hurdle

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time2Columnist blasts suburban cops as he rails against legislator rather than recognizing systemic problems

Chicago Sun Times columnist Mark Brown does not get it.  Back in February, I wrote about a law proposed by state representative Monique Davis, allegedly inspired by the legislator’s distaste for the annual winter eviction moratorium, that would eliminate bad weather as a valid reason to delay evictions. 

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State legislator seeks to ban the Cook County winter eviction moratorium

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bricksIs she right or is she doing damage to landlords?

A news article in the Chicago Sun Times yesterday indicates that state representative Monique Davis (Democrat) introduced a bill this week to “eliminate weather as a factor in enforcement of eviction judgments”.  Readers of this blog are well aware of the current significant delay in eviction order enforcement in Cook County cause, in part, by the winter eviction moratorium and the recent inclement weather.  Apparently Rep. Davis is a landlord herself and is not pleased with how “some of them [tenants] know how to play the game”.

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Cook County Holiday / December / Winter Eviction Moratorium Starts Soon

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mora2Update: look here for information on the 2014-2015 winter moratorium

It is that time of year when Christmas is in the air and tenants across Cook County get a respite from eviction in the form of an eviction moratorium.  On December 12, 2013, the Circuit Court of Cook County entered general order 2013-07 effectively stopping the Cook County Sheriff from enforcing eviction possession orders.  The Sheriff of Cook County has been ordered to cease the execution of orders for possession beginning on December 16, 2013 (they don’t evict on weekends, so really, tenants who are not evicted by December 13 will be unaffected until the moratorium ends) and to resume evictions effective January 3, 2014 (a Friday, so, again, there really are no evictions until January 6, 2014). 

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Cook County orders 2012 winter eviction moratorium

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For information on the 2013-2014 moratorium, click here!

In the spirit of the holiday season (or at least so they don’t look like the Grinch), the Circuit Court of Cook County generally provides tenants with an early Christmas present at this time of year.  Presiding Judge E. Kenneth Wright, Jr. has entered General Order 2012-04 ordering the annual Cook County shut down of the Cook County Sheriff’s enforcement of eviction orders.  Per the general order, the Sheriff of Cook County has been ordered to cease the execution of orders for possession beginning today, December 17, 2012 and to resume evictions effective January 2, 2013.  For landlords, this is a little lump of coal.  It means that eviction orders are stayed from enforcement and no tenants will be forcibly evicted or removed from their properties for just over a two week period from now into the new year.

The order goes on to direct

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