Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in Illinois

Section 8 is a rent program; all other obligations are usually typical lease requirements and many can be controlled by local ordinances. Most leases say that the tenant can't "overload" the floors and/or the electrical or other systems, so yes there are reasons why the landlord can ask you to limit the things you keep in the apartment, but this is relatively rare unless you have so much stuff that it is just becoming a mess, since most leases also require the tenant to keep their apartments in "clean" and/or "neat" condition. Your landlord should be telling you what the issue is, though. So if you can't get this information or have been given a landlord's notice to vacate because of these complaints you should talk to an attorney who can find out what the issue really is or protect you if an eviction lawsuit is the next step.