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William Dalton had never faced eviction until a series of bad events struck last year: His mom died, his relationship with the mother of his now 5-year-old daughter ended and his car was totaled. He ...

Illinois has launched its new state-funded, court-based rental assistance program for tenants struggling to pay rent and their landlords, state officials confirmed. The new program, which opened ...

Rufus Reed, 60, has owned rental properties in Chicago since 1998. Among his seven units on the South and West sides, he’s had to evict 15 to 20 tenants, never once being able to recoup the lost rent.

Illinois is scaling back its flagship rental assistance program, with funding for the next fiscal year cut by a third, just as eviction filings are rising and rent growth shows no signs of slowing.

There’s a solution for those issues again after a two-month hiatus: Illinois’ court-based rental assistance program reopened July 31. The state rental assistance program was previously funded by ...

Illinois residents earning minimum wage need to work 82 hours a week to afford rent on a two-bedroom rental home, according to a recent report from the National Low Income Housing Coalition. The NLIHC ...

Here’s the hourly wage a Belleville resident needs to earn to afford rent on a two-bedroom unit, according to a new national housing affordability report. Blacqbook Getty Images/iStockphoto Illinois ...

Any Illinois tenant can apply for the rental assistance program if they have a pending eviction due to nonpayment. Tenants must be currently in a court eviction proceeding and be able to provide their ...

Illinois allocated $75 million in state funding to continue to provide rental assistance to renters and their landlords for fiscal year 2025, which began July 1. Unlike many other states and ...