Willow Springs — Ch. 12-1 Discrimination and Housing § 12-1-1

The following words shall have the meanings ascribed to them for the purpose of this chapter:
AGE: The chronological age of a person who is forty (40) but not yet seventy (70) years old.
HANDICAP: A determinable physical or mental characteristic of a person, 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.
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: 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 or more individuals, partnerships, associations or organizations, labor organizations, labor unions, or union labor associations, corporations, the State of Illinois and its instrumentalities, political subdivisions, units of local government, legal representatives, trustees in bankruptcy or receivers.
PLACE OF PUBLIC 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. By way of example, but not of limitation, "place of public accommodation" includes facilities of the following types: inns, restaurants, eating houses, hotels, taverns, barber shops, department stores, theatres, skating rinks, concerts, elevators, and public conveyances on land, water, or air, public swimming pools and other places of public accommodation and amusement.
PUBLIC OFFICIAL: Any officer or employee of the State or any agency thereof, including State political subdivisions, Municipal corporations, park districts, forest preserve districts, educational institutions and schools.
REAL ESTATE BROKER OR SALESMAN: 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 or herself out as engaged in these.
REAL ESTATE TRANSACTION: Includes the sale, exchange, rental or lease of real property.
REAL PROPERTY: Includes buildings, structures, real estate, lands, tenements, leaseholds, interests in real estate cooperatives, condominiums, or any interest therein.
RELIGION: Any belief protected by the free exercise clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
SEX: The status of being male or female.
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 RE3 or the equivalent thereof, but does not include those characterized as RE4 or dishonorable.
UNLAWFUL DISCRIMINATION: Discrimination against a person because of his or her race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, marital status, handicap or unfavorable discharge from military service as those terms are defined in this Section.