Rockford — Part I Ch. 11 Human Rights § 11-21

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
Age means the chronological age of a person who is at least 40 years old, except with regard to training or apprenticeship programs. In the case of training or apprenticeship programs, age means the chronological age of a person who is 18 but not yet 40 years old, unless this Code or other state or federal statutes permit such discrimination.
Aggrieved person means a person who is alleged or proved to have been injured by a violation of this chapter or believes a violation is about to occur.
City means the City of Rockford, a municipal corporation, and its elected officials, employees, officers and agents.
Commission means the community relations commission of the city.
Contract means any agreement entered or awarded by the city.
Contractor means any person awarded or seeking award of a city contract including every subcontractor under such contract.
Covered multifamily dwellings means: (1)
Buildings consisting of four or more units if such buildings have one or more elevators; and
(2) Ground floor units in other buildings consisting of four or more units.
Discriminatory housing practice means an act that is unlawful under this chapter or state or federal law.
Disability means a determinable physical or mental characteristic of a person, including, but not limited to, a determinable physical characteristic which necessitates the person's use of a guide, hearing or support dog, the history of such characteristic, or the perception of such characteristic by the person complained against, which may result from disease, injury, congenital condition of birth or functional disorder and which characteristic is unrelated to the person's ability to perform the duties of a particular job or position and also includes any mental, psychological, or developmental disability, including autism spectrum disorders. A person's illegal use of or addiction to drugs or alcohol is not a disability within the meaning of this chapter.
Employee means any individual performing services for remuneration for an employer, or who is an apprentice, or who is an applicant for any apprenticeship; except that the term employee does not include any individual employed by his parents, spouse or child.
Familial status means one or more individuals, who have not attained the age of 18 years, being domiciled with: (1)
A parent or person having legal custody of such individual; or
(2) The designee of such parent or other person having such custody, with the written permission of such parent or other person.
The protections afforded by this chapter against discrimination on the basis of familial status apply to any person who is pregnant or is in the process of securing legal custody of any individual who has not attained the age of 18 years.
Housing accommodation includes any improved or unimproved real property, or part thereof, which is used or occupied, or is intended, arranged or designed to be used or occupied, as the home or residence of one or more individuals.
Marital status means the legal status of being married, single, separated, divorced or widowed.
Military status means a person's status on active duty in or status as a veteran of the armed forces of the United States, status as a current member or veteran of any reserve component of the armed forces of the United States, including the United States Army Reserve, United States Marine Corps Reserve, United States Navy Reserve, United States Air Force Reserve, and United States Coast Guard Reserve, or status as a current member or veteran of the Illinois Army National Guard or Illinois Air National Guard.
Order of protection status means a person's status as being a person protected under an order of protection issued pursuant to the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986 or an order of protection issued by a court of another jurisdiction.
Person includes one or more individuals, partnerships, associations or organizations, labor organizations, labor unions, joint apprenticeship committees, or union labor associations, corporations, the city and its instrumentalities, legal representatives, trustees in bankruptcy or receivers.
Pregnancy means pregnancy, childbirth, or medical or common conditions related to pregnancy or childbirth.
Real estate broker means a person, whether licensed or not, who, for or with the expectation of receiving a consideration, lists, sells, purchases, exchanges, rents, or leases real property, or who negotiates or attempts to negotiate any of these activities, or who holds himself out as engaged in these.
Real estate transaction includes the sale, exchange, rental or lease of real property. The term also includes the brokering or appraising of residential real property and the making or purchasing of loans or providing other financial assistance: (1)
For purchasing, constructing, improving, repairing or maintaining a dwelling; or
(2) Secured by residential real estate.
Real property includes buildings, structures, real estate, lands, tenements, leaseholds, interests in real estate cooperatives, condominiums, and hereditaments, corporeal and incorporeal, or any interest therein.
Religion includes all aspects of religious observance and practice, as well as belief.
Sex means the status of being male or female.
Sexual harassment means unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature when this conduct explicitly or implicitly affects an individual's employment, unreasonably interferes with an individual's work performance, or creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive work environment.
Sexual orientation means actual or perceived heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality, or gender-related identity, whether or not traditionally associated with the person's designated sex at birth. Sexual orientation does not include a physical or sexual attraction to a minor by an adult.
Subcontractor means any person who supplies any of the work, labor services, supplies, equipment, materials, or any combination of the foregoing under a contract with a contractor or another subcontractor.
Unlawful discrimination means discrimination based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, and harassment based upon sex), disability, age, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship status, military status, unfavorable military discharge, gender identity, or status as a survivor of domestic violence or human trafficking.
Unfavorable military discharge includes discharges from the Armed Forces of the United States, their Reserve components or any National Guard or Naval Militia which are classified as RE-3 or the equivalent thereof, but does not include those characterized as RE-4 or Dishonorable.