Lombard — Title XIII Ch. 136 Fair Housing Practices § 136.02

(A) No owner, lessee, or sublessee of real property, real estate broker or salesman, lender, financial institution, advertiser, or agent of any of the foregoing, shall discriminate against any person because of that person's race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, physical or mental handicap, familial status, or unfavorable discharge from military service with respect to any real estate transaction.
(B) Any act of discrimination in a real estate transaction shall be considered an unfair housing practice, including but not limited to the following:
(1) Refusal to engage in real estate transaction with a person or discriminate in making available such a transaction.
(2) Altering the terms, conditions or privileges of a real estate transaction or in the furnishing of facilities or services in connection therewith.
(3) Refusal to receive or failure to transmit a bona fide offer to engage in a real estate transaction from a person.
(4) Refusal to negotiate for a real esate transaction with a person.
(5) Representing to a person that real property is not available for inspection, sale, rental, or lease when, in fact, it is so available, or failure to bring a property listing to his or her attention, or refusal to permit him or her to inspect real property.
(6) Printing, circulating, posting, mailing, publishing or causing to be published a written or oral statement, advertisement or sign, or using a form of application for a real estate transaction, or making a record in inquiry in connection with a prospective real estate transaction, which expresses any limitation founded upon, or indicating, directly or indirectly an intent to engage in unlawful discrimination.
(7) Offering, soliciting, accepting, using or retaining a listing of real property with knowledge that unlawful discrimination or discrimination on the basis of familial status in a real estate transaction is intended.
(8) Soliciting for sale, leasing, listing or purchasing any residential real estate within the village on the grounds of loss of value due to the present or prospective entry into the vicinity of the property involved of any person or persons of any particular race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, marital status, familial status, or handicap.
(9) Distributing or causing to be distributed, written material or statements designed to induce any owner of residential real estate in this village to sell or lease his or her property because of any present or prospective changes in the race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, marital status, familial status or handicap of residents in the vicinity of the property involved.
(10) Intentionally creating alarm, among residents of any community, by transmitting communications in any manner, including a telephone call whether or not conversation thereby ensues, with a design to induce any owner of residential real estate in this village to sell or lease his or her property because of any present or prospective entry into the vicinity of the property involved of any person or persons of any particular race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, marital status, familial status or handicap.
(11) Discriminating or participating in discrimination in connection with borrowing or lending money, guaranteeing loans, accepting mortgages or otherwise obtaining or making available funds for the purchase, acquisition, construction, rehabilitation, repairs or maintenance of any real property in the village.
For the purpose of this subsection, discrimination in lending shall include:
(a) Refusal to make loans; or,
(b) Differentiation in the type of loans, including interest rates, charges to buyer or seller, duration and amount of loan; or
(c) Influencing appraisals in connection with loans; or,
(d) Delaying processing loan applications.