IL Security Deposit Return Act
landlord tenant attorney Illinois Aug 22, 2026
Location: Illinois, USA I obviously don’t like trusting AI to help me with this, so I want to confirm a couple things it tells me with one or more hopefully lawyer internet strangers. I’ve got a situation where my old landlord charged me for a bunch of (I think) unreasonable things. I’ve already filed a small claims complaint, they’ve lawyered up, but my job was made easy because they missed the 30 day deadline to furnish an itemized statement of damages. The envelope I have from them was postmarked 43 days after I moved out. This should be a clear-cut win for me based on the ILSDRA. The judge would HAVE to follow the clear and specific requirement of this law, right? Their lawyer is going to claim they sent it well within the 30 days, since the statement inside the envelope is dated earlier, and that it must have gotten lost the mail. I’m pretty sure this is not even a valid argument and no judge would go for it. Their lawyer also threatens countersuit for me to pay them more money than my security deposit for the alleged damages and also for their attorney fees. I’m pretty sure they can’t counter sue if my side of the case is as surefire a win as I think it is. Thoughts?
