Illinois Landlord and Tenant Act
765 ILCS 705 — Landlord and Tenant Act. Core Illinois landlord-tenant statute: prohibits retaliatory rent increases, requires disclosure of flooding, security deposit interest, alternative rent payment means (§ 3.5), and more. Confirmed 10 sections live 2026-09-17.
Provisions (13)
§ 0.01
Short title. This Act may be cited as the Landlord and Tenant Act
§ 1
Liability exemptions
§ 10
Failure to inform lessor who is a child sex offender and who resides in the same building in which the lessee resides or intends to reside that the lessee is a parent or guardian of a child under 18 years of age. If a lessor of residential real estate resides at such real estate and is a child sex offender as defined in Section 11-9.3 or 11-9.4 of the Criminal Code of 1961 or the Criminal Code of 2012 and rents such real estate to a person who does not inform the lessor that the person is a parent or guardian of a child or children under 18 years of age and subsequent to such lease, the lessee discovers that the landlord is a child sex offender, then the lessee may not terminate the lease based upon such discovery that the lessor is a child sex offender and such lease shall be in full force and effect. This subsection shall apply only to leases or other rental arrangements entered into after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly
§ 15
Changing or rekeying of the dwelling unit lock
§ 16
Military personnel in military service; right to terminate lease
§ 20
Heating and cooling standards
§ 25
Disclosure of potential flooding in rental and lease agreements
§ 3
Rent payments at business office; cross-reference. Leases and other rental agreements may be subject to Section 9-218 of the Code of Civil Procedure (735 ILCS 5/9-218)
§ 30
Reusable tenant screening report
§ 35
Rental fee transparency and limitations
§ 3.5
Additional means to pay rent when electronic payment methods charge additional fees. If a landlord uses a third-party payment portal to collect rental payments from tenants and if a transaction fee or other charge is imposed through the portal on rental payments made by e-check or other means, then the landlord shall allow the tenant to make rental payments by delivering a paper check or cash to the landlord or the landlord's business office or by means that do not require the tenant to pay the transaction fee or other charge. This Section applies to leases or agreements executed after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 103rd General Assembly
§ 4
Payment by electronic funds transfer
§ 5