Macomb — Ch. 13 Housing § 13-93

(a) Employment rights complaints should be limited to employees who cannot file complaints with the Illinois Department of Human Rights or the Federal Equal Employment and Opportunity Commission. The exception to this is the City of Macomb, which is subject to the jurisdiction of the commission.
(b) It shall be an unlawful employment practice:
(1) For an employer to fail or refuse to hire any person or otherwise discriminate against any person or employee with respect to application, hiring, training, apprenticeship, tenure, promotion, upgrading, compensation, layoff, discharge or any term or condition of employment because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, order of protection status, marital status, physical or mental disability, military status, sexual orientation, pregnancy or unfavorable discharge from military service which would not interfere with the job in question.
(2) For any employer, employment agency or labor organization to establish, announce or follow a policy of denying or limiting, through a quota system or otherwise, the employment or membership opportunities of any person or group of persons because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, order of protection status, marital status, physical or mental disability, military status, sexual orientation, pregnancy or unfavorable discharge from military service which would not interfere with the efficient performance of the job in question.
(3) For any employer, labor organization, employment agency or any joint labor-management committee controlling apprentice training programs to deny to or withhold from any person the right to be admitted to or participate in a guidance program, an apprenticeship training program, an on-the-job training program or any other occupational training program because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, order of protection status, marital status, physical or mental disability, military status, sexual orientation, pregnancy or unfavorable discharge from military service, which would not interfere with the efficient performance of the job in question.
(4) For any employer, employment agency or labor organization to require of any applicant for employment or membership any information concerning race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, order of protection status, marital status, physical or mental disability, military status, sexual orientation, pregnancy or unfavorable discharge from military service; provided that this section shall not be construed to prohibit the keeping of such records as are necessary to implement an affirmative action program approved by the Macomb Equal Opportunity and Fair Housing Commission as required by this article or as otherwise required by law.
(5) For any employer, employment agency or labor organization to publish or circulate or to cause to be published or circulated any notice or advertisement relating to employment or membership which indicates any discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, order of protection status, marital status, physical or mental disability, military status, sexual orientation, pregnancy or unfavorable discharge from military service, which would not interfere with the efficient performance of the job in question.
(6) For any employment agency to fail or refuse to classify properly or refer to employment or otherwise to discriminate against any person because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, order of protection status, marital status, physical or mental disability, military status, sexual orientation, pregnancy or unfavorable discharge from military service, which would not interfere with the efficient performance of the job in question.
(7) For any employer substantially to confine or limit recruitment or hiring of employees, with intent to circumvent the spirit and purpose of this article, to any employment agency, employment service, labor organization, training school, training center or any other employee-referring source which serves persons who are predominantly of the same race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, order of protection status, marital status, physical or mental disability, military status, sexual orientation, pregnancy or unfavorable discharge from military service
(8) For any labor organization to discriminate against any person in any way which would deprive or limit his employment opportunities or otherwise adversely affect his status as an applicant for employment or as an employee with regard to tenure, compensation, promotion, discharge or any other terms, conditions or privileges directly or indirectly related to employment because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, order of protection status, marital status, physical or mental disability, military status, sexual orientation, pregnancy or unfavorable discharge from military service, which would not interfere with the efficient performance of the job in question.
(9) For any employer, employment agency or labor organization to discriminate against any person because he has opposed any practice forbidden by this article or because he has made a complaint or testified or assisted in any manner in any investigation or proceeding under this article.
(10) For any person, whether or not an employer, employment agency or labor organization, to aid, incite, compel, coerce or participate in the doing of any act declared to be an unlawful employment practice by this article, or to obstruct or prevent any person from enforcing or complying with the provisions of this article or to attempt directly or indirectly to commit any act declared by this article to be an unlawful employment practice.
(11) For any employer, employment agency or labor organization to inquire on a written application whether a job applicant has ever been arrested; provided that this section shall not be construed to prohibit the obtaining of information or records concerning the conviction of any individual.