Department

Human Relations

Featured Services and Programs

• 

  File a Complaint
• 

  Community Tensions
• 

  Hate Crimes
• 

  Speaker/Workshop

City Council Approves Law Prohibiting Discrimination Based on Credit History

---

ALERT! NEW LAW!  Effective May 1, 2012...

Except in limited instances, an employer may not use credit history or order a credit report when making employment decisions.  Also, job advertisements may not include language barring the unemployed from applying.  Click the link below for more information:

Credit History Handout

---

We're Moving...

Effective mid-July...

We will be located in the same building, different Suite.

Please pardon our mess while we transition to our new location on the 4th Floor.

New Location Address:

740 N. Sedgwick St, Suite 400, Chicago, IL 60654

Alerts (Human Relations)

May 30, 2012

Advisory Council on Veterans Monthly Meeting

Most Recent News (Human Relations)

Apr 16, 2012

CCHR Marks Equal Pay Day With Rally at Daley Plaza on April 17

What We Do

• Adjudication: Discrimination Cases
• Advisory Council on Equity
• Advisory Council on Veterans
• Advisory Council on Women and LGBT
• Inter-Group Relations (IGR): Community Tensions and Hate Crimes

Supporting Information

• Decisions & Precedents in Discrimination Cases
• Fact Sheets on Discrimination Ordinances (Various Languages)
• File a Discrimination Complaint
• File a Human Relations FOIA Request
• Forms and Publications for Discrimination Cases
• Hate Crime Victim Assistance
• Ordinances and Regulations
• Recursos sobre discriminación en español / Discrimination Resources in Spanish
• Respond to a Discrimination Complaint Filed Against You

City Data

• FOIA Request Log - Human Relations