Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in Illinois

Is the roommate's lease agreement with you, or your landlord? Either way, it will depend on what the terms of the lease say.

I'll assume you are not the landlord. You both signed the lease. She did later than you. What you don't say is whether she moved in at the same time. If she did, then her later signing ratified the lease as to her from day 1; if not she may have a defense to rent prior to move-in as to the landlord. As to the two of you, if she moved in day 1, she would be obliged to whatever deal you two had regardless of her signing the actual lease between the two of you and the landlord later, and if she did not move in until later she would probably not owe you anything just because you had moved in first although a judge might again say she ratified the lease and therefore ratified your arrangements -- there may be other factors there that alter that outcome.

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