House & Apartment

Learn more about the housing rights and protections survivors have under the Illinois Safe Homes Act and the Violence Against Women Act.

Understand how laws from many sources, including local landlord-tenant ordinances, apply to Illinois rental housing.

Discover how spoken (oral) and written agreements create leases, rules for lease restrictions, and when landlords can increase rent.

Answers to common questions about how people renting and purchasing homes in Illinois are protected against unlawful discrimination.

How suburban Cook County's Just Housing Amendment protects tenants from discrimination based on their criminal record and what landlords need to do to comply with the law.

Learn about rental housing applications, what landlords must disclose before a lease is signed, and how to avoid rental scams.

Find out what counts as an illegal lockout and how to get emergency rental repairs in Illinois.

Learn about tenants' rental repair rights, including the right to repair and deduct, and when landlords can enter units for repairs.

Learn about how to deal with bugs, rodents, and other pests in a rental home.