Illinois month-to-month termination notice

State form

• Illinois’ Supreme Court-approved Notice of Non-Renewal of Lease or Termination of Tenancy, form E-TN 3506.2, is known as the 30-Day Notice.¹
• Every Illinois court must accept the eviction forms on the approved statewide list.³

Deadlines

• On the approved Illinois form, the landlord states that the notice is served at least 30 days before the tenancy ends, and the form itself warns that a lease or local law may require longer.¹

Delivering the notice

• An Illinois termination notice can be handed to the tenant, left with a resident 13 or older, or sent by certified or registered mail with a return receipt.⁴

Law

• Chicago’s Fair Notice Ordinance requires 60 days’ notice to end a tenancy of more than six months and under three years, and 120 days after three years.²
• The Chicago notice periods cover month-to-month renters as well as tenants with a written year-long lease.²
• When a Chicago landlord gives too little notice, the tenant may stay for the required period or keep paying the prior rent for that period.²

• Property address, unit and county
• The date the tenancy began
• The last day of the tenancy, counted from your state’s notice period
• A mailing address where the tenant returns keys and sends a forwarding address

It is not for late rent or a lease violation, which take a different notice, and it does not end a fixed-term lease before its end date.