Aurora — Art. 22-II Housing Discrimination § 22-23

All definitions contained herein shall be deemed to include any and all exceptions, exclusions and/or exemptions as set forth in the Illinois Human Rights Act (775 ILCS 5/1 et seq.) from time to time.
Age as used in this chapter shall be defined as the chronological age of a person who is at least forty (40) years old, in the case of training or apprenticeship programs, "age" means the chronological age of a person who is eighteen (18) but not yet forty (40) years old. 

Citizenship status means the status of being 1) a born U.S. citizen; 2) a naturalized U.S. citizen; 3) a U.S. national; or 4) a person born outside the United States and not a U.S. citizen who is not an unauthorized alien and who is protected from discrimination under the provisions of Section 1324b of Title 8 of the United States Code, as now or hereafter amended. 

Human relations commission means the City of Aurora Human Relations Commission. 

Credit transactions means any application for credit, invitation to apply for credit, extension of credit or credit sale. 

Disability, or physical or mental 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 or birth or functional disorder and which characteristic is unrelated to the person's ability to perform the duties of a particular job or position, or their ability to acquire, rent or maintain a housing accommodation, or their ability to repay, or their ability to utilize and benefit from a place of public accommodation. 

Employee includes any and all persons who perform services under the direction and control of, and for any employer for compensation, whether in the form of wages, salary, commission or otherwise, excluding the parents, spouses or children of the employer and excluding independent contractors, although they may be subject to this chapter as employers or in any other capacity covered hereunder. 

Employer includes any person within the City, including, but not limited to, owners, managers, supervisors or others who serve a supervisory function, who hires or employs any employee whose services are to be partially or wholly performed in the City. 

Employment agency means any person regularly undertaking with, or without compensation, to procure employees for an employer, or to procure for employees opportunities to work for an employer, to recruit, refer, or place employees. 

Familial status means one (1) or more individuals (who have not attained the age of eighteen (18) years) being domiciled with: 1) a parent or person having legal custody of such individual or individuals; or 2) the designee of such parent or other person having such custody, with the written permission of such parent or other person. The protection 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 eighteen (18) years. 

Gender means a person's actual or perceived sex, and includes a person's gender identity, appearance or behavior, whether or not that gender identity, appearance or behavior is different from that traditionally associated with the person's sex at birth. 

Housing accommodations includes all buildings, structures or any portion thereof, within the City, which are used or occupied, or are maintained, arranged or designed to be used or occupied as a home, residence or sleeping place for one (1) or more human beings. 

Language means a person's native tongue, such as, but not limited to, Polish, Spanish, or Chinese. Language does not include such things as slang, jargon, profanity, or vulgarity. 

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, the United States Marine Corps Reserve, United States Navy Reserve, United States Air Force Reserve, United States Coast Guard Reserve, and United States Space Force 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 state. 

Person includes one (1) or more individuals, partnerships, associations, organizations, corporations, legal representatives, joint stock companies, mutual companies, trustee, trustees in bankruptcy, receivers and any other incorporated or unincorporated organized group. The term includes, but is not limited to, any real estate owner, lessor, assignor, builder, manager, broker, salesman or agent, or any lending institution. 

Probable cause means that on the basis of all available information provided during the investigation, there exists evidence in the form of testimony and/or documents which leads an objective person to reasonably believe that a violation of this chapter may have occurred. 

Public accommodation means any business, enterprise or activity consisting of or involving furnishing, providing or making available to the public any goods, services, accommodations, entertainment, amusements, facilities, advantages or privileges, including, but not limited to, inns, cafes, restaurants, taverns, hotels, barber shops, salons, retail stores, restroom, theaters, skating rinks, swimming pools, public golf driving ranges, concerts, crematories, cemeteries, airplanes, buses, boats and any other public conveyances on land, water or air, and other places of public accommodation and/or amusement. This paragraph shall not apply to any public school system. 

Religion includes all aspects of religious observance and practice, as well as belief. 

Sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination and is defined as any unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature or a discriminatory nature. In the context of employment, sexual harassment includes such conduct when: 
Submission to such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of an individual's employment; or 

Submission to or rejection of such conduct by an individual is used as the basis for employment or decisions affecting an employee; or 

Such conduct has the purpose or effect of substantially interfering with an individual's employment or performance or creating an intimidating, hostile or offensive employment environment. 

Sexual orientation means heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality, or gender-related identity, actual or perceived, whether or not traditionally associated with the person's designated sex at birth. Sexual orientation shall not be construed to protect conduct otherwise proscribed by law. 

Unfavorable military discharge means 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." 

(Ord. No. O12-043, § 1, 6-12-12)

HISTORY
Amended by Ord. O21-039 on 7/27/2021