Machesney Park — Ch. 18 Human Rights § 18-19

(a) Equal opportunity housing. In furthering the policy of the state as expressed in the constitution and other laws and in order that the safety and general welfare, peace and health of all the inhabitants of the village may be ensured, it is hereby declared the policy of the village, to ensure equal opportunity to all residents, regardless of race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex, creed, or physical or mental disability, familial status, source of income, or an arrest record, to live in decent, sanitary, healthful, standard living quarters.
(b) Discrimination. It is the policy of the village that no owner, or any other person engaging in a real estate transaction, or a real estate broker or salesman, lessee, sublessee, assignee, managing agent, or other person, having the right to sell, rent, lease (or otherwise control) any housing accommodation and/or real property within the village, or any agent of these, shall refuse to sell, rent, lease, or otherwise deny to or withhold from any person or group of persons such housing accommodations and/or real property because of race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex, creed, or physical or mental disability, familial status, source of income, or an arrest record of such person or persons or discriminate against any person or persons because of race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex, creed or physical or mental disability, familial status, source of income, or an arrest record in the conditions, term privileges of the sale, rental or lease of any housing accommodations and/or real property or in the furnishing of facilities and/or services in connection therewith.