Legal Question in Business Law in Illinois

Based on your facts you are in a store setting where even though there are many vendors (typical of an antiques mart), the owner of the premises rents you an area and collects your rent through a share of the proceeds of each sale. If so and as you say the owner has decided it will accept checks (and you have no right to say no to the policy) you are looking to the owner to handle the administrative side and "guaranty" collections so it would be the owner (something like "Paypal" for example, in ebay). However I know also that some antique marts and similar "department" stores do NOT do that and that the "owner" makes out a receipt for each vendor and not for the "store", with a policy to accept checks solely for the convenience of all vendors so the buying public is not confused by a myriad of different vendor payment requirements. So you need to look at the whole picture and any agreement you signed to display your merchandise, because normally the "owner" shouldn't have it both ways unless you contractually gave up your rights.....

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