I devote quite a bit of time on this blog to looking at Chicago and state (Illinois) landlord-tenant issues. However, landlords in the northwest suburbs and Chicagoland in general should not think that they are left out in the cold. Yes, you suburban landlords have it much easier (at least most of you do) than the City of Chicago landlords. But, your care-free days may be coming to a close in this new regulation-heavy era.
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Illinois landlords now required to provide radon gas disclosure to tenants
As I mentioned in a post just a few weeks back, Illinois landlords will have one more disclosure to provide to their tenants beginning in 2012. Governor Quinn recently signed into law certain amendments to the Illinois Radon Awareness Act that impose new disclosure requirements on landlords.