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Chicago’s Human Rights Ordinance protects people against discrimination based on race, color, sex, gender identity, age, religion, disability, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, parental status, military discharge status, or source of income. The law applies to “public accommodations,” which is basically any place that offers services to the public — including bars and nightclubs.
A RedEye review of discrimination complaints filed with the Human Relations Commission found three separate dress-code related complaints over the past three years, all of them claiming race discrimination against nightclubs that prohibited braids in their dress code policy.
