How to find concealed eviction records

[Patrick Pan]

Hello everyone,

I recently evicted a tenant and had to concede to the demand to conceal this eviction record during the negotiation. It's not fair for his future landlords not to know about this terrible tenant. Anyhow this makes me afraid of accepting someone who got their eviction record concealed. I've heard that in California, the eviction record is automatically concealed for 30 days (yuck!). I wonder how long it's concealed in Illinois.

How to find the prospect concealed eviction records in Cook county? Does physically going to downtown reveal more info than the Cook County Circuit court website?

Thanks,

Patrick

[Karen F.]

What we really need is a single internet "bad tenant" list to warn each other.