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2005 Illinois Code - 775 ILCS 5/ Illinois Human Rights Act. Article 5 - Public Accommodations
(775 ILCS 5/5‑101) (from Ch. 68, par. 5‑101)
Sec. 5‑101.
Definitions) The following definitions are applicable
strictly in the context of this Article:
(A) Place of Public Accommodation. (1) "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.
(2) By way of example, but not of limitation, "place of public
accommodation" includes facilities of the following types: inns,
restaurants, eating houses, hotels, soda fountains, soft drink parlors,
taverns, roadhouses, barber shops, department stores, clothing stores,
hat stores, shoe stores, bathrooms, restrooms, theatres, skating rinks,
public golf courses, public golf driving ranges, concerts, cafes,
bicycle rinks, elevators, ice cream parlors or rooms, railroads,
omnibuses, busses, stages, airplanes, street cars, boats, funeral
hearses, crematories, cemeteries, and public conveyances on land, water,
or air, public swimming pools and other places of public accommodation
and amusement.
(B) Operator. "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.
(C) Public Official. "Public official" means any officer or employee
of the state or any agency thereof, including state political subdivisions,
municipal corporations, park districts, forest preserve districts, educational
institutions and schools.
(Source: P.A. 81‑1267.)
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(775 ILCS 5/5‑102) (from Ch. 68, par. 5‑102)
Sec. 5‑102.
Civil Rights Violations: Public Accommodations.
It is a civil
rights violation for any person on the basis of unlawful discrimination to:
(A) Enjoyment of Facilities. Deny or refuse to another the full and equal
enjoyment of the facilities and services of any public place of accommodation;
(B) Written Communications. Directly or indirectly, as the operator of
a place of public accommodation, publish, circulate, display or mail any
written communication, except a private communication sent in response to
a specific inquiry, which the operator knows is to the effect that any of
the facilities of the place of public accommodation will be denied to any
person or that any person is
unwelcome, objectionable or unacceptable because of unlawful discrimination;
(C) Public Officials. Deny or refuse to another, as a public official,
the full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advantage, facilities
or privileges of the official's office or services or of any property under
the official's care because of unlawful discrimination.
(Source: P.A. 81‑1216.)
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(775 ILCS 5/5‑103) (from Ch. 68, par. 5‑103)
Sec. 5‑103.
Exemption.
Nothing in this Article shall apply to:
(A) Private Club. A private club, or other establishment not in fact open
to the public, except to the extent that the goods, services, facilities,
privileges, advantages, or accommodations of the establishment are made
available to the customers or patrons of another establishment that is a
place of public accommodation.
(B) Facilities Distinctly Private. Any facility, as to discrimination
based on sex, which is distinctly private in nature such as restrooms, shower
rooms, bath houses, health clubs and other similar facilities for which
the Department, in its rules and regulations, may grant exemptions based
on bona fide considerations of public policy.
(C) Inn, Hotel, Rooming House. Any facility, as to discrimination based
on sex, which restricts the rental of rooms to individuals of one sex.
(Source: P.A. 85‑567.)
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