Rental Inspections in Illinois (2026)

In the City of Berwyn, Illinois, the Building Department inspects every registered multi-tenant or mixed-use property…

The City of Bloomington runs a mandatory Rental Inspection Pool under Bloomington City Code § 45-201 (Section 900) to…

Bolingbrook requires a passed code compliance inspection and an approved rental occupancy permit before any leased…

Every dwelling unit rented in Evanston for the first time must be registered with the Community Development Department…

In the Village of Mount Prospect, each multi-family rental structure and each unit in it is subject to inspection…

Oak Lawn requires an annual code compliance inspection and signed occupancy permit before any non-owner occupied rental…

The Village of Palatine inspects multi-family rental buildings every year, with at least 25 percent of units in each…

Peoria requires every registered dwelling to be inspected by the landlord and tenant before move-in and at least once a…

Schaumburg requires every landlord to hold a rental license from the finance department before renting a residential…

Waukegan inspects at least 33 1/3 percent of a licensed rental building's units every year, cycling every unit through…

Winnebago County requires every rooming house operator to hold an annual health department license, tying renewal to…

Aurora, Illinois requires a mandatory follow-up inspection after every rental code violation, escalating uncorrected…

Under Municipal Code Sec. 22-21.1(3), Champaign inspects the exterior and common areas of every R-2, R-4 or…

Chicago does not have a mandatory systematic rental inspection program like some other major cities. Instead, the city…

Unincorporated Cook County requires a Department inspection of every licensed rental unit at least once every four…

Elgin conditions every rental license on a physical inspection: the licensing inspection must occur within one hundred…

Every covered rental property in Joliet, from single-family rentals to hotels, goes through a biennial inspection under…

Before Kane County will license a short-term rental, the owner must document an approved inspection of the well, water…

The Village of Oak Park inspects licensed rental housing under Village Code § 12-2-6: the Neighborhood Services…

Skokie runs a mandatory, ongoing inspection program for every building that contains a registered residential rental…

Tinley Park inspects the exterior and public areas of rental buildings before issuing or renewing a residential rental…

Lake County treats renting out living quarters the Health Officer finds unfit for habitation as a public nuisance, but…

A Bloomington rental building can be pulled into the City's mandatory rental inspection pool if it is the subject of a…

A Cicero landlord's failure to provide required heat cannot even be found a violation until a tenant's complaint…

Tenants in unincorporated Cook County can file a complaint with the Department of Public Health, which must investigate…

Evanston's code official can enter and inspect a rental unit once there is reasonable cause, typically a tenant's…

A Joliet rental property that already earned an inspection waiver isn't exempt from an unannounced check: Sec…

In the Village of Mount Prospect, rental structures other than multi-family rental structures are inspected in response…

Oak Lawn's Director of Inspectional Services must get a Cook County Circuit Court warrant to inspect a rental unit…

The Village of Palatine's code official can inspect a rental unit not only on the scheduled licensing cycle but also…

Peoria tenants can complain directly to the city about a building, housing or health code violation, or an illegal…

Every Schaumburg rental agreement must warn tenants that the unit can be regularly inspected or investigated in…

When a Springfield property owner or occupant refuses to let a building or housing inspector in, the inspector can ask…

Under the Village Code's condominium conversion chapter, Tinley Park's Building Commissioner cannot force entry into a…

Skokie lets a tenant, not just the owner or operator, trigger a fuller rental inspection. Section 22-509(D) normally…