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THE eviction of families from their homes by legal process for non-payment of rent became a not infrequent occurrence in Chicago, as in other large cities, during the depression period. This was, of course, one of the effects of the period of prolonged unemployment and the loss of financial resources of all kinds; but along with these causes went the extraordinary policy of the family welfare agencies regarding rents. An action in forcible entry and detainer is one phase of the law regulating the relationship of landlord and tenant; and the legal procedure necessary to eviction is dealt with in Chicago in one of the specialized branches of the Municipal Court, the so-called Renters' Court.'I During the second summer after the depression2 the nonpayment of rents in Chicago had become so widespread that landlords in all parts of the city were trying, by means of evictions and threatened evictions, to force their tenants to pay the accumulating arrears, or at least their current, if not their overdue, rents.
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