Evanston, Ill., City Code § 5 § 5-3-6-6

(A) Except as otherwise agreed, if, upon termination of a tenancy (other than by an order of a court of competent jurisdiction) including, but not limited to, a termination after expiration of a lease or by surrender or abandonment of the premises, a tenant has left personal property on the premises, and the housing provider reasonably believes that the tenant has abandoned such personal property, the housing provider shall:
1. Notify the tenant in writing of the housing provider's demand that such property be removed within the dates set forth in such notice (but not less than fifteen (15) days after delivery or mailing of such notice); and that if such property is not removed within the time specified, the property may be sold. If the property is not removed within the time specified in such notice, the housing provider may sell the property at a public sale or at a commercially reasonable private sale. The proceeds, less reasonable costs incurred by such sale or storage of property, shall be held by the housing provider for the tenant for one (1) year. If the tenant does not claim the proceeds within one (1) year, the proceeds shall be the property of the housing provider; or
2. If the tenant has left personal property which is reasonably determined by the housing provider to be valueless or of such little value that the cost of storing and conducting a sale would probably exceed the amount that would be realized from such sale, the housing provider may notify the tenant in writing that such property be removed by the date specified in such notice (but not less than fifteen (15) days after delivery or mailing of such notice), and that if such property is not removed within the time specified, the housing provider intends to destroy or otherwise dispose of the property. If the property is not removed within the time specified in the notice, the housing provider may destroy or otherwise dispose of the property.
3. The notice may also provide that the housing provider will sell specific items of the tenant's personal property and destroy or otherwise dispose of the remainder of said property.
(B) The housing provider may determine that the tenant has abandoned the dwelling unit and property therein in the following circumstances: (1) the tenant has provided actual written notice to the housing provider indicating the tenant's intention not to return to the dwelling unit; or (2) all persons entitled under the rental agreement have been absent from the dwelling unit for a period of thirty-two (32) days, or for one (1) rental period when the rental agreement is for less than a month, and such person(s) have removed their personal property from the premises and rent for that period is unpaid.
(C) After sending written notice, as provided in Subsection (A) of this Section, the housing provider shall store all personal property of the tenant in a place of safekeeping and shall exercise reasonable care of the property, but shall not be responsible to the tenant for any loss not caused by the housing provider's willful or negligent act or omission. The housing provider may elect to store the property in or about the previously vacated premises. In such case, the storage shall not exceed commercially reasonable storage rates. If the tenant's property is removed to a commercial storage company, the storage cost shall include the actual charge for such storage and removal from the premises to the place of storage.
(D) After the housing provider's notice under Subsection (A) of this Section, if the tenant makes timely response in writing of the tenant's intention to remove the personal property from the premises and does not do so within the time specified in the housing provider's notice or within thirty (30) days of the delivery or mailing of the tenant's written response or a mutually agreeable date (whichever is later), it shall be conclusively presumed that the tenant has abandoned such property. In the event the tenant removes the property after notice, the housing provider shall be entitled to the cost of storage for the period the property has remained in the housing provider's safekeeping.
(E) Any public sale, authorized under the provisions of this Section, shall be conducted pursuant to law.