3 rules for unincorporated Champaign County, Illinois.
Verified from official government sources
Rent control is illegal everywhere in Champaign County. The Illinois Rent Control Preemption Act (50 ILCS 825) bars every unit of local government — the county, Champaign, Urbana, and Rantoul — from capping rent, and it preempts home rule. Landlords set and raise rent at market.
50 ILCS 825/5
A unit of local government shall not enact, maintain, or enforce an ordinance or resolution that would have the effect of controlling the amount of rent charged for leasing private residential or commercial property.
Illinois has no just-cause eviction law, and neither Champaign, Urbana, nor Rantoul requires a landlord to state a reason for ending a tenancy. A landlord gives proper written notice, then must win a judgment in the Champaign County Circuit Court to remove a tenant.
The unincorporated county runs no rental registry, but its cities do. Urbana has one of Illinois's oldest rental registration and inspection programs — annual registration plus letter-graded inspections on a three-to-five-year cycle. Champaign adopted its own rental registration ordinance in 2026.
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