How many hours' notice must a landlord give before entering in Illinois?

No fixed statutory period (see notice standard). No Illinois statute governs entry into a unit under an ordinary residential lease or requires advance notice. Entry is governed by the lease and by the tenant's possessory right to quiet enjoyment.

What reasons allow a landlord to enter a rental in Illinois?

Not enumerated by statute. The lease governs, and typically covers repairs, inspections, and showings.

How much notice must a landlord give before entering in Illinois?

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Legislative changes ahead — not yet in force. This page reflects the law in force today. The following measure would change Illinois's landlord-tenant law:

SB 1260 (104th General Assembly, 2025-2026) — Would repeal the Rent Control Preemption Act (50 ILCS 825), removing the statewide bar on local rent control. Status: Filed January 28, 2025 and referred to the Senate Committee on Assignments the same day; no committee or floor action since. It dies when the 104th General Assembly's term ends in January 2027. (checked October 1, 2026).

Illinois has no statute requiring advance notice before a landlord enters an occupied unit under an ordinary residential lease; the lease governs entry, backstopped by the tenant's right to quiet enjoyment.

Cited to 765 ILCS 705 (Landlord and Tenant Act; no entry-notice provision) and 1 more cited source · Verified October 1, 2026

Mobile home parks are the exception: a park owner may enter a home it rents out only after due notice, except in emergencies (765 ILCS 745/11(e)). The important local rules are in the Chicago area: Chicago's RLTO requires two days' notice before entry, and suburban Cook County's ordinance requires at least two days' written notice, presumes entry between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. reasonable, and allows entry without consent in an emergency, so landlords there operate under much stricter access rules than state law provides.

Illinois entry notice at a glance

Advance notice required	No fixed statutory period (see notice standard)
Notice standard	No Illinois statute governs entry into a unit under an ordinary residential lease or requires advance notice. Entry is governed by the lease and by the tenant's possessory right to quiet enjoyment. The one statewide entry rule is for mobile home parks: a park owner may enter a home it owns and rents out only after due notice to the tenant, except in emergencies, and may not enter a resident-owned home on a rented lot without the owner's permission (765 ILCS 745/11(e)).
Permitted reasons	Not enumerated by statute. The lease governs, and typically covers repairs, inspections, and showings.
Emergency exception	Not addressed by statute
Time-of-day restrictions	Not addressed by statute

Cite this page: "Landlord Atlas, Illinois Landlord Entry Notice Laws (verified October 1, 2026), landlordatlas.com/laws/entry-notice/illinois/" — free to cite and quote with a link (how these records are verified). Everything above is cited in the citations section below.

Notes and caveats

'No statutory requirement' is not 'unrestricted entry' — Illinois has no entry-notice statute for an ordinary residential lease (the one statewide rule covers mobile home parks, 765 ILCS 745/11(e)); no notice-hours figure is shown, and the citation documents that absence. That does not make entry unrestricted: the lease and the tenant's right to quiet enjoyment still govern.
Chicago and Cook County require two days' notice — The Chicago and suburban Cook County two-day entry-notice rules are local ordinances, out of scope for this state-level record, so Chicago-area landlords operate under much stricter access rules than state law provides.

Common questions: Illinois entry notice

Each answer is the verified value from the table above, restated as a direct answer. Free to quote with a link to this page.

How many hours' notice must a landlord give before entering in Illinois?: No fixed statutory period (see notice standard). No Illinois statute governs entry into a unit under an ordinary residential lease or requires advance notice. Entry is governed by the lease and by the tenant's possessory right to quiet enjoyment.
What reasons allow a landlord to enter a rental in Illinois?: Not enumerated by statute. The lease governs, and typically covers repairs, inspections, and showings.
Can a landlord enter without notice in an emergency in Illinois?: Not addressed by statute.
Are there time-of-day limits on when a landlord can enter in Illinois?: Not addressed by statute.

Citations

765 ILCS 705 (Landlord and Tenant Act; no entry-notice provision) (verified 2026) Official source
765 ILCS 745/11 (Mobile Home Landlord and Tenant Rights Act; park owner's entry) · (e) (verified 2026) Official source

How this record was verified: Web verification against ilga.gov (official Illinois General Assembly ILCS database) for the Security Deposit Return Act (765 ILCS 710), Security Deposit Interest Act (765 ILCS 715), Landlord and Tenant Act (765 ILCS 705), Rent Control Preemption Act (50 ILCS 825), and 735 ILCS 5/9-207, with statute text confirmed via current-year compiled-statute mirrors of the ilga.gov database and IDFPR official guidance on deposit interest rates. September 5, 2026 addendum: the decisive figures touched by the 2025-2026 enactments reviewed that day were re-read on the official host — 735 ILCS 5/9-106 and 5/9-121 and the Landlord Retaliation Act, 765 ILCS 721, on ilga.gov; the earlier reads stand as recorded. October 1, 2026: every section the security deposit, rent increase, late fee and entry answers rest on was read again on ilga.gov, with each section's source line and the Public Acts of the 104th General Assembly through Public Act 104-0854: the Security Deposit Return Act, the Security Deposit Interest Act, the Landlord and Tenant Act, the Mobile Home Landlord and Tenant Rights Act (765 ILCS 745), the Rent Control Preemption Act, 735 ILCS 5/9-207 and 5/9-213, and 420 ILCS 46/26 and 46/30. That reading found that Public Act 103-224 removed the five-unit threshold from the Security Deposit Return Act effective January 1, 2024; these pages had still stated the threshold and were corrected the same day. No act of the 104th General Assembly amends the deposit, interest or preemption acts; Public Act 104-479 adds 765 ILCS 705/35 from January 1, 2027.