(j) The date the notice is deemed “given” is the date on which the notice is delivered in person to the tenant or the date on which the notice is received by the tenant after being sent by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested, or the date of service by a deputy sheriff or constable.
(C) Rights of tenants.
(1) Extension of rental housing agreement; limitations on rent increases during notice period. For any tenant whose current rental housing agreement expires before the end of the one- or five-year notice period to which they are entitled under this Section, the landlord shall extend the tenant’s rental housing agreement for the entire length of the required notice period. The provisions of such extended rental housing agreement may not be modified from the existing terms, except that the amount of annual rent may be increased by 10%, or the percentage increase in the consumer price index during the calendar year immediately preceding the date upon which such rental housing agreement is extended, whichever is less.
(2) Relocation benefit.