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775 ILCS 5/1-102 (2026)

Declaration of policy

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(775 ILCS 5/1-102) (from Ch. 68, par. 1-102)
    Sec. 1-102. Declaration of policy. It is the public policy of this State:
        (A) Freedom from Unlawful Discrimination. To secure
    
for all individuals within Illinois the freedom from discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, order of protection status, marital status, physical or mental disability, military status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, reproductive health decisions, or unfavorable discharge from military service in connection with employment, real estate transactions, access to financial credit, and the availability of public accommodations, including in elementary, secondary, and higher education.
        (B) Freedom from Sexual Harassment-Employment and
    
Elementary, Secondary, and Higher Education. To prevent sexual harassment in employment and sexual harassment in elementary, secondary, and higher education.
        (C) Freedom from Discrimination Based on Citizenship
    
Status-Employment. To prevent discrimination based on citizenship status in employment.
        (C-5) Freedom from Discrimination Based on Work
    
Authorization Status-Employment. To prevent discrimination based on the specific status or term of status that accompanies a legal work authorization.
        (D) Freedom from Discrimination Based on Familial
    
Status or Source of Income-Real Estate Transactions. To prevent discrimination based on familial status or source of income in real estate transactions.
        (E) Public Health, Welfare and Safety. To promote the
    
public health, welfare and safety by protecting the interest of all people in Illinois in maintaining personal dignity, in realizing their full productive capacities, and in furthering their interests, rights and privileges as citizens of this State.
        (F) Implementation of Constitutional Guarantees. To
    
secure and guarantee the rights established by Sections 17, 18 and 19 of Article I of the Illinois Constitution of 1970.
        (G) Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action. To
    
establish Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action as the policies of this State in all of its decisions, programs and activities, and to assure that all State departments, boards, commissions and instrumentalities rigorously take affirmative action to provide equality of opportunity and eliminate the effects of past discrimination in the internal affairs of State government and in their relations with the public.
        (H) Unfounded Charges. To protect citizens of this
    
State against unfounded charges of prohibited discrimination in employment, real estate transactions, financial credit, and public accommodations, including in elementary, secondary, and higher education.
(Source: P.A. 102-233, eff. 8-2-21; 102-896, eff. 1-1-23; 103-472, eff. 8-1-24; 103-785, eff. 1-1-25.)

    
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 68 cases (24 in the last 5 years), 1995–2025 · leading case: Rozsavolgyi v. The City of Aurora, 2016 IL App (2d) 150493 (Ill. App. Ct. 2016).
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Rozsavolgyi v. The City of Aurora, 2016 IL App (2d) 150493 (Ill. App. Ct. 2016). · cites it 9× “) 775 ILCS 5/1-102(A) (West 2014). The Human Rights Act is remedial legislation.”
Boaden v. Dep't of Law Enf't, 664 N.E.2d 61 (Ill. 1996). · cites it 3× “It is also the policy of this State: "To promote the public health, welfare and safety by protecting the interest of all people in Illinois in maintaining personal dignity, in realizing their full productive capacities, and in furthering their interests, rights and privileges as…”
Rozsavolgyi v. City of Aurora, 2016 IL App (2d) 150493 (Ill. App. Ct. 2016). · cites it 11× “The statute provides a comprehensive scheme to “secure for all individuals within Illinois the freedom from discrimination against any individual because of his or her race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, order of protection status, marital status,…”
Rabe v. United Air Lines, Inc., 636 F.3d 866 (7th Cir. 2011). “§ 623 , and the Illinois Human Rights Act, 775 ILCS 5/1-102, 5/2-102. The district court dismissed the case, concluding that it lacked subject matter jurisdiction because Rabé is a foreign national who worked for United abroad.”
Sangamon Cnty. Sheriff's Dep't v. Illinois Human Rights Comm'n, 908 N.E.2d 39 (Ill. 2009). “The Sheriff's Department recognized that Yanor was acting on its behalf when Sheriff Williamson stated in his disciplinary memorandum to Yanor: "I cannot express enough my disappointment in you, especially representing me and this office in your capacity as a supervisor."…”
Melinda Erickson, United States of Am., Intervenor v. Bd. of Governors of State Colleges & Universities for Ne. Illinois Univ., 207 F.3d 945 (7th Cir. 2000). “Having opened its courts to claims based on state law, including its own prohibition of disability discrimination by units of state government, see 775 ILCS 5/1-102, 5/2- 101(B)(1)(c), Illinois may not exclude claims based on federal law.”
Kimberly Hively v. Ivy Tech Cmty. Coll., 830 F.3d 698 (7th Cir. 2016). “§§ 368-1 , 378-2; Illinois: 775 ILCS 5/1-103 & 775 ILCS 5/1-102; Iowa: Iowa Code Ann. 216.”
Cavalieri-Conway v. L. Butterman & Assocs., 992 F. Supp. 995 (N.D. Ill. 1998). · cites it 2× “See 775 ILCS 5/1-102(A), 775 ILCS 5/3-102, 775 ILCS 5/1-102(F) (1997).”
M.U. v. Team Illinois Hockey Club, Inc., 2022 IL App (2d) 210568 (Ill. App. Ct. 2022). “775 ILCS 5/1-102(F) (West 2020). One of the stated goals of the Act is “[t]o secure for all individuals within Illinois the freedom from discrimination against any individual because of his or her *** mental disability *** in connection with employment, real estate transactions,…”
Windsor Clothing Store v. Castro, 2015 IL App (1st) 142999 (Ill. App. Ct. 2015). “775 ILCS 5/1-102(A) (West 2012). To that end, the Act prohibits the denial of full and equal enjoyment of the facilities, goods, and services of any place of public accommodation.”
Brewer v. Bd. of Trs. of Univ. Of Ill., 791 N.E.2d 657 (Ill. App. Ct. 2003). “Having opened its courts to claims based on state law, including its own prohibition of disability discrimination by units of state government, see 775 ILCS 5/1-102, []2-101(B)(1)(c) [(West 2000)], Illinois may not exclude claims based on federal law.”
Robinson v. Vill. of Oak Park, 2013 IL App (1st) 121220 (Ill. App. Ct. 2013). “775 ILCS 5/1-102, 2-101(F) (West 2010). This statutory provision is the same as the federal statute, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.”
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— 775 ILCS 5/1-102(A) — 43 cases
Boaden v. Dep't of Law Enf't, 664 N.E.2d 61 (Ill. 1996). “It is also the policy of this State: "To promote the public health, welfare and safety by protecting the interest of all people in Illinois in maintaining personal dignity, in realizing their full productive capacities, and in furthering their interests, rights and privileges as…”
Sangamon Cnty. Sheriff's Dep't v. Illinois Human Rights Comm'n, 908 N.E.2d 39 (Ill. 2009). “The Sheriff's Department recognized that Yanor was acting on its behalf when Sheriff Williamson stated in his disciplinary memorandum to Yanor: "I cannot express enough my disappointment in you, especially representing me and this office in your capacity as a supervisor."…”
Rozsavolgyi v. The City of Aurora, 2016 IL App (2d) 150493 (Ill. App. Ct. 2016). “) 775 ILCS 5/1-102(A) (West 2014). The Human Rights Act is remedial legislation.”
Windsor Clothing Store v. Castro, 2015 IL App (1st) 142999 (Ill. App. Ct. 2015). “775 ILCS 5/1-102(A) (West 2012). To that end, the Act prohibits the denial of full and equal enjoyment of the facilities, goods, and services of any place of public accommodation.”
Schnitker v. Springfield Urban League, Inc., 2016 IL App (4th) 150991 (Ill. App. Ct. 2016).
— 775 ILCS 5/1-102(B) — 3 cases
Saunders v. Orbitz Worldwide, LLC, 2023 IL App (1st) 221018 (Ill. App. Ct. 2023).
Doe 10 v. Bd. of Educ. of Triad Cmty. Unit Sch. Dist. 2 (S.D. Ill. 2021).
Corluka v. Bridgford Foods (Ill. App. Ct. 1996).
— 775 ILCS 5/1-102(C) — 2 cases
Rozsavolgyi v. The City of Aurora, 2016 IL App (2d) 150493 (Ill. App. Ct. 2016). “) 775 ILCS 5/1-102(A) (West 2014). The Human Rights Act is remedial legislation.”
Rozsavolgyi v. City of Aurora, 2016 IL App (2d) 150493 (Ill. App. Ct. 2016). “The statute provides a comprehensive scheme to “secure for all individuals within Illinois the freedom from discrimination against any individual because of his or her race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, order of protection status, marital status,…”
— 775 ILCS 5/1-102(D) — 1 case
Rozsavolgyi v. City of Aurora, 2016 IL App (2d) 150493 (Ill. App. Ct. 2016). “The statute provides a comprehensive scheme to “secure for all individuals within Illinois the freedom from discrimination against any individual because of his or her race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, order of protection status, marital status,…”
— 775 ILCS 5/1-102(E) — 3 cases
Boaden v. Dep't of Law Enf't, 664 N.E.2d 61 (Ill. 1996). “It is also the policy of this State: "To promote the public health, welfare and safety by protecting the interest of all people in Illinois in maintaining personal dignity, in realizing their full productive capacities, and in furthering their interests, rights and privileges as…”
Rozsavolgyi v. The City of Aurora, 2016 IL App (2d) 150493 (Ill. App. Ct. 2016). “) 775 ILCS 5/1-102(A) (West 2014). The Human Rights Act is remedial legislation.”
Rozsavolgyi v. City of Aurora, 2016 IL App (2d) 150493 (Ill. App. Ct. 2016). “The statute provides a comprehensive scheme to “secure for all individuals within Illinois the freedom from discrimination against any individual because of his or her race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, order of protection status, marital status,…”
— 775 ILCS 5/1-102(F) — 4 cases
Rozsavolgyi v. The City of Aurora, 2016 IL App (2d) 150493 (Ill. App. Ct. 2016). “) 775 ILCS 5/1-102(A) (West 2014). The Human Rights Act is remedial legislation.”
M.U. v. Team Illinois Hockey Club, Inc., 2022 IL App (2d) 210568 (Ill. App. Ct. 2022). “775 ILCS 5/1-102(F) (West 2020). One of the stated goals of the Act is “[t]o secure for all individuals within Illinois the freedom from discrimination against any individual because of his or her *** mental disability *** in connection with employment, real estate transactions,…”
Rozsavolgyi v. City of Aurora, 2016 IL App (2d) 150493 (Ill. App. Ct. 2016). “The statute provides a comprehensive scheme to “secure for all individuals within Illinois the freedom from discrimination against any individual because of his or her race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, order of protection status, marital status,…”
Cavalieri-Conway v. L. Butterman & Assocs., 992 F. Supp. 995 (N.D. Ill. 1998). “See 775 ILCS 5/1-102(A), 775 ILCS 5/3-102, 775 ILCS 5/1-102(F) (1997).”
— 775 ILCS 5/1-102(G) — 2 cases
Rozsavolgyi v. The City of Aurora, 2016 IL App (2d) 150493 (Ill. App. Ct. 2016). “) 775 ILCS 5/1-102(A) (West 2014). The Human Rights Act is remedial legislation.”
Rozsavolgyi v. City of Aurora, 2016 IL App (2d) 150493 (Ill. App. Ct. 2016). “The statute provides a comprehensive scheme to “secure for all individuals within Illinois the freedom from discrimination against any individual because of his or her race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, order of protection status, marital status,…”
— 775 ILCS 5/1-102(H) — 3 cases
Rozsavolgyi v. The City of Aurora, 2016 IL App (2d) 150493 (Ill. App. Ct. 2016). “) 775 ILCS 5/1-102(A) (West 2014). The Human Rights Act is remedial legislation.”
Rozsavolgyi v. City of Aurora, 2016 IL App (2d) 150493 (Ill. App. Ct. 2016). “The statute provides a comprehensive scheme to “secure for all individuals within Illinois the freedom from discrimination against any individual because of his or her race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, order of protection status, marital status,…”
Bowne of Chicago, Inc. v. Human Rights Comm'n (Ill. App. Ct. 1998).
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