Is Chicago about to see a spike in eviction notices? A forecast shows that up to 21,000 Chicago households could get one after the moratorium lifts—13 times the monthly average from early 2020 before the pandemic hit. Getty Images In the first month after Gov. J.B. Pritzker lifts his moratorium on evictions, up to 21,000 rental households in Chicago could be hit with notices to leave, according to a new forecast. That’s about 13 times the monthly average of eviction notices filed in the early months of 2020, prior to the pandemic, according to a forecast released today by the Lawyers’ Committee for Better Housing and the Center for Urban Research & Learning at Loyola University.