Bed Breakfast Small Hotel for Illinois Innkeepers
Running a B&B or small hotel in Illinois means reservation calendars, occupancy and ADR that track together, and breakfast supplies that reorder themselves.
Regulatory framework
Illinois Residential Tenants Rights Act. Chicago RLTO adds substantial protections. Cook County ordinances add rent-tracking requirements. Just Cause Eviction under debate.
Economic context
Median household income $76,700. Top industries: finance, manufacturing, food processing, transportation. Cook County property taxes are among the highest in US.
Tax load
Income tax: 4.95% flat. Sales tax: 6.25% state (+local).
Landlord/tenant summary
State moderately tenant-friendly; Chicago strongly tenant-friendly.
Operator notes
Chicago compliance overhead is real. Solo operators need detailed accounting to survive audit.
Room rates, reservation calendar, breakfast food cost, and a monthly P&L. The inn, managed from one file.
- ✓ Excel + Google Sheets · instant download
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- ✓ Works anywhere in Illinois
A small inn runs on room nights and food cost. The margin lives in the difference between what you paid the vendor and what you charged the guest. This workbook holds the room rate card, the reservation calendar, a guest CRM for repeat bookings, and a breakfast food-cost tab that tracks the actual plate cost by menu item. The monthly P&L ties it all together.