Cook County Court Halts EvictionsOn November 25, 2019, Circuit Court of Cook County Judge E. Kennth Wrights, Jr. issued the expected General Order 2019-01 which sets out the annual eviction moratorium for the enforcement of Cook County eviction orders for December 2019 and January 2020. As usual, the order applies to residential (not commercial) eviction in Cook County.
Cook County Eviction winter “stay” starts soon It is that time of year where the Cook County Circuit Court extends some holiday cheer to tenants (certainly not to landlords) and prohibits the Sheriff from enforcing eviction orders. By way of a general order, the court has ordered that the Sheriff not evict any tenants beginning … Read more
UPDATE: This was originally posted on January 6, but as of January 9, 2014, it looks like things are still not on track for evictions tomorrow. As I understand it, weather permitting, evictions will begin again on January 13, 2014. Bone chilling cold appears responsible for an additional delay in the resumption of evictions by … Read more
Update: 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).
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
Laws about Landlord and tenant responsibility to shovel snowSnowmageddon 2011. What’s a landlord to do? Well, that depends on where the landlord’s property is located. The Chicago Sun Times ran a story reminding property owners about the obligation to shovel snow on their sidewalks within the City of Chicago. My friend Tim Tomasik from the Clifford Law Offices was even quoted in the story advising folks to shovel.