Inherited Tenant won't pay rent or even have a conversation

[Morgan Gruelle]

Hello, 

I just purchased 2 4-plexes back in january that are right next door to each other. One tenant that was just put in place back in december just before i closed on the property has been nothing but problems. Her rent was due the day after we closed on the property (january 15). It is not coming up on May and we have not received a dime from her. She is coming up on 5 months behind. I went over to fix a leaky sink one day and tried to talk with her about it to see if we could come up an agreement, but she gave me a story about how she had an issue with the previous landlord putting someone on her lease who ended up having to leave because he was living in the basement apartment which is not legally able to be rented yet the two of them were supposed to be splitting the rent. The other person on the lease was the previous landlords maintenance guy. It was kind of a weird situation i guess but regardless she is the only one on the lease and living in the unit at this point although she may have someone living with her im not really sure.  I had my property manager try to reach out to her first and she said she would think about it and get back to us, but she never did. After she stopped responding to the property manager I went by and tried to speak with her I told her we were willing to work with her to lower rent to something she could afford and I made a couple of verbal suggestions of what we could lower it to and she said she would not agree to anything. I went back a couple weeks later to "check on the fixed sink", at that point i dont think she thought i was anything other than the maintenance guy, but i tried to speak with her about the situation and come to an agreement but she literally told me she "did not wanna talk about it" and when said "well your 4 months behind on rent I think we need to figure something out here", she started screaming at me and told me to "get the F*** out of her apartment" and then ended up calling the cops on me because i was standing there trying to de-escalate the situation but not leaving her apartment. i ended up leaving before they got there and didn't end up talking to them. Even though I don't feel I was in the wrong I have tried numerous times to apologize and just try to start a conversation with her to resolve the situation, but she will not respond to texts or answer the phone. she is coming up on being 5 months behind on may 15th. At the very least I was going to try to get her to apply for rental assistance, or even lower her rent, or try to pay her to leave, but shes so  aggressive when I've gone over there she just starts screaming. The last time I knocked on the door she opened it and tried to close it in my face. I ended up putting my foot in the door and tried to say hey wait a second lets talk but she flipped out and called the cops again, I ended up leaving again before they got there. This is the first problem tenant I have had. I am not sure what to do at this point or how to handle the situation. My property manager is telling me Illinois is not doing evictions at the moment. This property is in Granite City Illinois. Does anyone have any ideas or advice on how to handle this situation?