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

No fixed statutory period (see notice standard). No statewide statute governs landlord entry 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?

Yes — Illinois recognizes an emergency exception to the entry-notice requirement.

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

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Legislative changes ahead — not yet in force. The rules on this page reflect the law in force today. The following measure would change it:

SB 1260 (104th General Assembly, 2025-2026) — Would repeal the Rent Control Preemption Act (50 ILCS 825), ending the statewide bar on local rent regulation and leaving home-rule and non-home-rule units free to consider rent-control ordinances. Repeal bills of this kind have been introduced in most recent sessions without passing.Status: Introduced February 2025; in Senate committee with no floor action. Alive until the 104th General Assembly adjourns in January 2027. (checked 2026-08-12).

Illinois has no statewide statute requiring advance notice before a landlord enters an occupied rental unit — the lease governs entry, backstopped by the tenant's right to quiet enjoyment, and 24 hours' notice at reasonable times is the convention courts expect where the lease is silent.

Cited to 765 ILCS 705 (Landlord and Tenant Act; no entry-notice provision) · Verified July 8, 2026

The important exceptions are local: Chicago's RLTO requires two days' notice with entry between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., and suburban Cook County's ordinance mirrors it, so landlords in the Chicago area operate under much stricter access rules than state law provides. Emergencies justify immediate entry everywhere.

Illinois entry notice at a glance

Advance notice required	No fixed statutory period (see notice standard)
Notice standard	No statewide statute governs landlord entry or requires advance notice. Entry is governed by the lease and by the tenant's possessory right to quiet enjoyment. Courts generally expect entry at reasonable times, on reasonable notice, for purposes connected to the lease.
Permitted reasons	Not enumerated by statute. The lease governs, and typically covers repairs, inspections, and showings.
Emergency exception	Yes
Time-of-day restrictions	Not addressed by statute

Cite this page: "Landlord Atlas, Illinois Landlord Entry Notice Laws (verified July 8, 2026), landlordatlas.com/laws/entry-notice/illinois/" — free to cite and quote with a link (how these records are verified). Every figure above is cited to the Illinois statute in the citations section below.

Notes and caveats

'No statutory requirement' is not 'unrestricted entry' — Illinois has no state entry-notice statute — no notice-hours figure is shown, and the citation documents that absence — but that does not make entry unrestricted: the lease and the tenant's right to quiet enjoyment still govern.
Chicago and Cook County require 48 hours — The Chicago and suburban Cook County 48-hour entry 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 statewide statute governs landlord entry 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?: Yes — Illinois recognizes an emergency exception to the entry-notice requirement.
Are there time-of-day limits on when a landlord can enter in Illinois?: Not addressed by statute.

Statute citations

765 ILCS 705 (Landlord and Tenant Act; no entry-notice provision) (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.