Illinois cohort opening
Common Elements for Illinois community associations
Illinois pairs 765 ILCS 605 for condominiums with 765 ILCS 160 (CICAA) for the rest. Manager licensure is governed by 225 ILCS 427 under IDFPR, with sexual-harassment-prevention training required each renewal cycle.
Illinois hosts approximately 18,500 community associations.
Regulatory at a glance
What Illinois requires
The platform models Illinois’s statutory cadence using the same statute reference that already covers Florida Chapter 718. Counsel-reviewed seed content lands ahead of the cohort go-live.
Statute and licensure
- Primary statute
- 765 ILCS 605 (Condominium Property Act) and 765 ILCS 160 (CICAA)
- Credential
- Community Association Manager (CAM, 225 ILCS 427)
- Licensing body
- Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR), Division of Real Estate
- Continuing education
- 12 hours per two years
Source: idfpr.illinois.gov
Distinctive obligations
- Community association manager standards inside the Condo Act765 ILCS 605/18.7
- Biennial license renewal expiring 08-31 of odd-numbered years
- Sexual-harassment-prevention training (1 hour) every renewal cycle
What we’re building
Four products. One platform — built for Illinois from day one.
The platform was architected with state as a first-class attribute on day one. Forum threads, RFPs, vendor profiles, and compliance obligations all scope to Illinois so the people who serve Illinois associations work in Illinois’s statutory frame — not Florida’s.
The Common Area
The industry-wide forum where boards, managers, vendors, attorneys, and insurance pros actually talk shop. Public threads, member-only rooms, role-badged authors.
In Illinois: Cook County density brings a deep bench of condo board members swapping bylaw-amendment notes.
The RFP marketplace
Post a request once. Verified vendors respond in structured fields. The Compare view aligns proposals to the same line items so boards decide apples-to-apples.
The vendor directory
Verified vendor profiles searchable by service line and service area. Credentials are part of the record — not a gut-feel referral.
In Illinois: IDFPR-licensed CAMs and CAM Firms verified through the public IDFPR licensee search.
The statute reference
State-specific statutory cadence with due dates, citations, and reminders — the same reference that already covers Florida 718.
In Illinois: 605 and CICAA obligations modelled separately so a Chicago condo and a north-suburb HOA see only the rules that apply to them.
Illinois association registry
Every association in Illinois, on one map.
Searchable, claimable, and growing as more associations sign up. Click anywhere on the map to explore the full directory.
Status — opening soon
Illinois is opening alongside our Florida launch.
We’re building Illinois alongside the Florida launch. Statute content, vendor directory, and compliance requirements are being seeded with counsel review. Add yourself to the Illinois launch list and we’ll notify the cohort when the surface goes live.
Other states
Common Elements is going national. Wave 1 covers nine states.