Reed v. Burns

Following a bench trial, the trial court entered judgment for plaintiff and against defendant in defendant’s claim for damages in a landlord-tenant dispute. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1989, ch. 110, par. 9 — 207.) On appeal defendant contends that the trial court erred as a matter of law in concluding that State law supersedes a Chicago municipal ordinance in an action for retaliatory eviction.

On November 5, 1990, plaintiff filed her complaint against defendant for possession of an apartment in Chicago, because defendant had “held over” after her tenancy expired. Defendant counterclaimed, alleging that…