Legal Question in Civil Rights Law in Illinois

You are protected under federal law against being forced out simply because the place you are renting is in foreclosure. You can not be evicted unless you are in default, and you can not be evicted if you are in good standing unless the new owner (after a foreclosure sale) wants to move in and gives you 90 days' notice. Your stopping the payment of rent put you in jeopardy, and probably has made your landlord frantic. If this apartment is investment property, the landlord needs the rental income to produce value so that someone will pay top dollar at the foreclosure sale if that's the way things are headed, and that would help minimize any deficiency judgment the landlord may owe the foreclosing lender if the place sells for less than the mortgage balance. At this point I recommend taking the situation to an attorney to see if your situation can be reinstated if the place is otherwise a decent deal for you. Otherwise the landlord can evict you and if the landlord is unable to rerent the place for as much as you were paying, sue you; and the landlord can even sue you for the costs to relet and lost rent. The good and bad news is that you apparently have no rent receipts; how that plays into the situation may work for or against you. Make sure you talk to your attorney about this aspect of the situation.