Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in Illinois

There's an old saying in the law: "Past consideration is no consideration." IF* your lease was converted to a month-to-month lease, it appears you are obligated for the extra month. Here's why: if rent is payable on the first of the month and you gave notice AFTER the first and LESS than 30 days elapsed before the next rent payment was due, the notice was NOT effective until after the next rent payment was due and the statute, which in my opinion is poorly drafted, has been interpreted to say you are stuck for the month in which the notice beccomes EFFECTIVE, being 30 days after being given. *Be thankful??? If the lease gave the landlord the option of declaring a year's renewal, the landlord COULD have demanded rent to the end of the year!!!

That being said, there may be other provisions in your lease that give you an out but that would require a full lease review.....