Champaign — Ch. 17 Human Rights § 17-3

The following words and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this article: (1)
Age means the chronological age of a person who is at least eighteen (18) years old or an emancipated minor, except where supervening law establishes a standard which may not be expanded or reduced.
(2) Bona fide occupational qualification means a qualification reasonably necessary to the operation of a particular business.
(3) Color means the tint of a person's skin.
(4) Commission means the Human Relations Commission.
(5) Complainant means a person who believes that he or she has been aggrieved by a violation of a provision of this chapter and files a complaint with the Commission or the City Manager's Office.
(6) Covered multi-family dwellings means buildings consisting of four (4) or more units if such buildings have one or more elevators or ground floor units in other buildings consisting of four (4) or more units.
(7) Credit card means any instrument or device, whether known as a credit card, credit plate, charge plate or any other name, issued with or without fee by any issuer for the use of the cardholder in obtaining money, goods, services or anything else of value on credit or in consideration or an undertaking or guaranty by the issuer of the payment of a check drawn by the cardholder.
(8) Credit transaction means any invitation to apply for credit, application for credit, extension of credit or credit sale.
(9) Creed means a formulation or system of religious faith.
(10) Disability means a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities of such individual; a record of such impairment; or being regarded as having such an impairment.
(11) Discrimination; unlawful; illegal means any practice or act which is based wholly or partially on or the perception of an individual based on race, color, creed, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, physical or mental disability, personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity, family responsibilities, matriculation, political affiliation, prior arrest or conviction record or source of income unless such practice or act is permitted as an exception in this Chapter of any individual.
(12) Employee means any individual employed or seeking employment from an employer.
(13) Employer means any person who, for compensation, employs any individual except for the employer's parents, spouse or children; or who employs domestic servants engaged in and about the employer's household.
(14) Employment agency means any person regularly undertaking or attempting, with or without compensation, to procure employees for an employer or to procure for employees the opportunity to work for an employer, including any agent of such person.
(15) Family responsibilities means the state of being, or the potential to become, a contributor to the support of a person or persons in a dependent relationship, irrespective of their number, including single parents.
(16) Familial status means one or more individual (who have not attained the age of eighteen (18) years) being domiciled with a parent or person having legal custody of such individual or individuals; or the designee of such parent or other person having such custody, with the written permission of such parent or other person.
(17) Financial institution means any bank, credit union, insurance company, mortgage banking company or savings and loan association which operates or has a place of business in this City.
(18) Forcible felony means treason, first degree murder, second degree murder, aggravated criminal sexual assault, criminal sexual assault, robbery, burglary, arson, kidnapping, aggravated battery resulting in great bodily harm or permanent disability or disfigurement and any other felony which involves the use or threat of physical force or violence against any individual.
(19) Gender Identity means the actual or perceived gender-related identity, gender expression, appearance, or mannerisms, or other gender-related characteristics of an individual, regardless of the individual's designated sex at birth. Gender identity includes, but is not limited to, male, female, non-binary, genderqueer, and transgender.
(20) Gender Expression means the external appearance of one's gender identity, usually expressed through behavior, clothing, haircut, or voice, and which may or may not conform to socially defined behaviors and characteristics typically associated with being either masculine or feminine.
(21) Housing accommodation means 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.
(22) Human rights officer means the City Manager or his or her designee.
(23) Intersex means a person's sex characteristics (chromosomes, hormones, gonads, genitalia, etc.) do not conform with a binary construction of sex as either male or female.
(24) Labor organization means any collective bargaining unit, committee, group, association or plan in which employees participate directly or indirectly and which exists for the purpose, in whole or in part, of dealing with an employer or employers concerning grievances, labor disputes, wages, rates of pay, hours or other terms, conditions or privileges of employment.
(25) Lease includes sublease, assignment, rental, or providing the use of real property for a fee, goods, services or anything of financial value, and includes any contract to do any of the foregoing.
(26) Loan means providing funds for:
(1) The purpose of purchasing, constructing, improving, repairing, or maintaining a housing accommodation; or
(2) Any consumer, commercial or industrial purposes.
(27) Marital status means the state of being married, separated, divorced, widowed or single and the conditions associated therewith, including pregnancy or parenthood.
(28) Matriculation means the condition of being enrolled in college or a university, or in a business, nursing, professional, secretarial, technical or vocational school or an adult educational program.
(29) National origin means the place in which a person or one of his or her ancestors was born.
(30) Operator means any owner, lessee, proprietor, manager, superintendent, agent or occupant of a place of public accommodation or an employee of any such person or persons.
(31) Owner means any person who holds legal or equitable title to, or owns any beneficial interest in, any real property or who holds legal or equitable title to any share of, or holds any beneficial interest in, any real estate cooperative which owns any real property.
(32) Person means one or more individuals, labor unions, employers, employment agencies, partnership, associations, creditors, corporations, cooperatives, legal representatives, government agency, trustees, owner, or any agent or representative of any of the foregoing or any beneficiary of an Illinois Land Trust.
(33) Personal appearance means the outward appearance of any person, irrespective of sex, with regard to bodily condition or characteristics, such as weight, height, facial features, or other aspects of appearance. It shall not relate, however, to the requirement of cleanliness, uniforms, or prescribed attire, if and when such requirement is uniformly applied for admittance to a public accommodation or to employees in a business establishment for a reasonable business purpose.
(34) Physical or mental disability means a physical, sensory or mental disablement, including a controllable malady, which may be the result of injury, illness or congenital condition, for which reasonable accommodation can be made.
(35) Place of public accommodation means 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, and includes but is not limited to: inns, restaurants, eating houses, hotels, soda shops, department stores, clothing stores, hat stores, shoe stores, bathrooms, restrooms, theaters, skating rinks, public golf courses, public golf driving ranges, concerts, cafes, bicycle rinks, elevators, ice cream parlors or rooms, railroads, omnibuses, buses, stages, airplanes, street cars, boats, funeral hearses, crematories, cemeteries, and public conveyances on land, water or air, public swimming pools, retail establishments and other places of public accommodation and amusement.
(36) Political affiliation means the state of belonging to or endorsing any political party or organization or taking part in any activities of a political nature.
(37) Race means a class or group of individuals involving a distinct physical type with certain unchanging characteristics, such as color of skin.
(38) Religion means all aspects of religious observance and practice, as well as belief, except that with respect to employers, for the purposes of Article III, religion includes all aspects of religious observance and practice, as well as belief, unless an employer demonstrates that he or she is unable to reasonably accommodate an employee's or prospective employee's religious observance without undue hardship on the conduct of the employer's business.
(39) Real estate broker or salesperson 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 or herself out as engaged in these.
(40) Real estate transaction means the sale, exchange, rental or lease of real property, brokering or appraising of residential real property and the making or purchasing of loans or providing other financial assistance for purchasing, constructing, improving, repairing or maintaining a dwelling or other transaction secured by residential real estate.
(41) Real property means any real estate, vacant land, building or structure, tenement, leasehold, interest in real estate cooperative, condominiums or any part thereof within the City limits.
(42) Respondent means a person alleged to be in violation of a provision of this chapter.
(43) Sex refers to biological characteristics and means the state of being or becoming male, female, intersex, or pregnant, including any illness arising out of and occurring during the course of a pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions.
(44) Sexual harassment means any unwelcome sexual advances or requests for sexual favors or any conduct of a sexual nature when: (1) submission to such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of an individual's employment; (2) submission to or rejection of such conduct by an individual is used as the basis for employment decisions affecting such individual; or (3) such conduct has the purpose or effect of substantially interfering with an individual's work performance or creating an intimidating, hostile or offensive working environment.
(45) Sexual orientation means the inherent or immutable enduring emotional, romantic, or sexual attraction to other people. A person's sexual orientation is distinct from a person's gender identity and gender expression.
(46) Source of income means the point or form of the origination of legal gains of income accruing to a person or reductions in debt the person would otherwise accrue in a stated period of time; from any occupation, profession or activity, from any contract, agreement or settlement, from federal, state or local payments, court ordered payments or from payments received as gifts, bequests, annuities or life insurance policies, which shall include Section 8 housing vouchers.
(47) Transgender means a person whose gender identity is different from that typically associated with the sex they were assigned at birth (e.g., sex listed on their birth certificate).
(48) Varying the terms of a loan means requiring a greater down payment than is usual for the particular type of a loan involved, requiring a shorter period of amortization than is usual for the particular type of loan involved, charging a higher interest rate than is usual for the particular type of loan involved; or under appraising real estate or other item of property offered as security.