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Free Illinois Notice
of Entry Template

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Last reviewed August 2026

Written by LawLease Editorial

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Illinois Notice of Entry

This Notice of Entry is built with Illinois as the governing state. These are the Illinois landlord-tenant rules that most often bear on it, with the statute for each.

Illinois rules at a glance

Illinois rules for a Notice of Entry
Landlord entry	No statutory minimum — the lease controls (Chicago requires 48 hours)

Landlord entry & access

Illinois has no statute setting a minimum notice period for landlord entry. Neither the Landlord and Tenant Act nor any other state act specifies hours or days, so courts apply a general standard of reasonable notice, at a reasonable time, for a reasonable purpose. Twenty-four hours is commonly treated as reasonable in practice, but it is not codified — any hour figure in an Illinois lease is a contract term, not a statutory rule.

Chicago is the exception: the RLTO requires at least 48 hours’ notice for non-emergency entry. Self-help is never permitted anywhere in Illinois — forcible entry and detainer is the exclusive route to possession, and only the sheriff may remove a tenant under a court order.

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