West Chicago — Ch. 7 Housing § 7-42

For the purposes of this article the following words shall have the following meanings unless their context requires otherwise:
Age. The chronological age of a person who is at least forty (40) years old.
Commission. The human relations commission established pursuant to section 2-311.
Discriminate. To extend differential treatment on the basis of race, sex, religion, color, age, marital status, handicap or national origin.
Handicap. A determinable physical or dental 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 function disorder and which characteristic: (1)
For purposes of section 7-43 (a) is unrelated to the person's ability to acquire, rent or maintain real estate;
(2) For purposes of section 7-43 (b) is unrelated to a person's ability to utilize and benefit from a place of public accommodation.
Investigator. An employee of the city designated by the city administrator to investigate a complaint filed under this article.
Lending institution. Any bank, insurance company, savings and loan association or any other person in the business of lending money or guaranteeing loans, any person in the business of obtaining, arranging or negotiating loans or guarantees as agent or broker, and any person in the business of buying or selling loans or instruments for the payment of money which are secured by title to or a security interest in real estate.
Marital status. The legal status of being married, single, separated, divorced or widowed.
National origin. The place in which a person or one of his or her ancestors was born.
Operator. Any owner, lessee, proprietor, manager, superintendent, agent, or occupant of a place of public accommodation or an employee of any such person or persons.
Person. Includes one (1) or more individuals, partnerships, associations or organizations, corporations, the State of Illinois and its instrumentalities, political subdivisions, units of local government, legal representatives, trustees in bankruptcy or receivers.
Public official. Any officer or employee of the state or any agency thereof, including political subdivisions, municipal corporations, park districts, forest preserve districts, educational institutions and schools.
Public place of accommodation. A business, accommodation, refreshment, entertainment, recreation or transportation facility of any kind, whether licensed or not, whose goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages or accommodations are extended, offered, sold or otherwise made available to the public. Such term includes, but is not limited to, restaurants, hotels, stores, taverns, soft drink or ice cream parlors, barber shops, beauty shops, theaters, places of amusement, taxicabs, funeral homes, public swimming pools, public golf courses, public driving ranges and other places of public accommodation and amusement.
Real estate. The term "real estate" shall be construed to include the following real property within the corporate limits of the City of West Chicago: (1)
Multiple-family dwellings of three (3) or more units.
(2) Multiple-family dwellings containing two (2) or fewer units, if the owner does not reside in one of the units.
(3) Single-family houses not owned by private individuals.
(4) Single-family houses owned by a private individual who owns more than three (3) such houses or who, in any two-year period, sells more than one (1) in which he was not the last resident.
(5) Single-family houses owned by private individuals if they are sold or rented through a broker or other person in the business of selling or renting dwellings, or if a discriminatory written notice or advertisement is used in offering to sell or rent.
Real estate broker. The term "real estate broker" means any natural person, partnership, association or corporation, or agent thereof, who for a fee or other valuable consideration sells, purchases, exchanges or rents real property of another, or offers or negotiates to do any of the foregoing, or manages and collects rental from the real property of another.
Sex. The status of being male or female.