Cook County Eviction Summonses Not Being ServedI must admit that I haven’t had occasion to file a new eviction in the last week, but it has come to my attention that the Cook County Sheriff may not be making routine service of summons at this time. To find out, I submitted a question to the Sheriff’s office and just received a response. It appears that
Back in 2011 (wow, we have been blogging here for a long time!), I posted about the Cook County Sheriff’s eviction procedure page and how a landlord can know if an eviction is coming up. Back then (and until recently), the Sheriff used to post a Sheriff Number and a District Number. That has changed on the Sheriff’s website, so I thought it was worth providing a small update to that information. Let’s take a look at the Cook County Sheriff’s eviction schedule website.
I just saw a story in the Chicago Tribune indicating that the Cook County Sheriff “this week” enforced an eviction order entered on December 15, 2017 against a Logan Square health club. Doing some quick math, that’s about an 11 week delay between the order and enforcement. As I mentioned in my last post, this … Read more
Periodically, I like to do a little anecdotal sample of cases to see where the Sheriff is running when it comes to Cook County evictions. Based on a VERY unscientific poll, it seems that evictions from early December are now being processed. That means we have about a 12 week backlog in the system. Keep … Read more
Bad weather cancels Cook Co. evictions this weekAs I wrote about yesterday, the weather outside is frightful. And when the weather gets frightful, the circuit court’s general order tends to turn off the eviction spigot. And in response, the Sheriff has updated his website. If you look at yesterday’s post, you will see that the Sheriff’s website indicated that “pursuant to court order, all residential real estate evictions shall cease effective 12-18-14 thru 1-5-15”. That has been replaced with the following (see highlighted area):
Eviction enforcement by Sheriff could take longer than 120 Days!Today (February 4, 2014), the eviction schedule website for the Cook County Sheriff includes an ominous additional warning. Landlords in eviction lawsuits are being advised that because of the number of days evictions have been cancelled due to adverse weather, many orders for possession will expire before the Sheriff can get around to enforcing them. A copy of the warning on the website is found below:
Good news for Cook County landlords. It looks like evictions are finally scheduled to take place again beginning on January 13, 2014.
In addition, the Sheriff seems to have a new method of notifying landlords of impending eviction enforcement. I recently received notice via email from the Cook County Sheriff that an eviction was scheduled for execution. In the good old days, you checked the website and received a telephone call from the Sheriff’s office letting you know when and where you need to be for the eviction. Looks like Sheriff Dart is making advances in getting the word out electronically for scheduled Cook County evictions.
For information on the 2013-2014 moratorium, click here!
In the spirit of the holiday season (or at least so they don’t look like the Grinch), the Circuit Court of Cook County generally provides tenants with an early Christmas present at this time of year. Presiding Judge E. Kenneth Wright, Jr. has entered General Order 2012-04 ordering the annual Cook County shut down of the Cook County Sheriff’s enforcement of eviction orders. Per the general order, the Sheriff of Cook County has been ordered to cease the execution of orders for possession beginning today, December 17, 2012 and to resume evictions effective January 2, 2013. For landlords, this is a little lump of coal. It means that eviction orders are stayed from enforcement and no tenants will be forcibly evicted or removed from their properties for just over a two week period from now into the new year.
The order goes on to direct
Based on anecdotal evidence, it looks like the Cook County Sheriff is currently evicting tenants sooner than the DuPage County Sheriff. Bravo Sheriff Dart. Hopefully, this will keep up. By the way, be on the lookout for a post soon about DuPage County eviction procedures. Have a good holiday!
Based on anecdotal evidence, some Cook County eviction orders are being executed by the Sheriff in as little as two to three weeks. This is quite good news for residential lessors prior to the customary winter slowdown.