This program will help you prepare your documents. It will ask you questions and you will enter your answers. At the end of the program, you will get a completed set of court forms with instructions that you can save and print.
Form completion time: 15 minutes to 25 minutes
You will not be able to stop and save your work in the middle of the program.
Qualifications
To use this program:
- You must be 18 or older
- You must have been discriminated against by someone during a housing or real estate transaction based on your race, ethnicity, relgion, sexual orientation, or other trait; AND
- The property involved must be located in Illinois.
You cannot use this program if the property is:
- An apartment building with 4 or fewer units and the owner lives in the building;
- A single-room occupancy building
- A bedroom in someone else's home, OR
- Religious housing.
You cannot use this program if it has been more than a year since the discrimination took place.
Information Needed
To complete this program, you will need:
- The name, address, and phone number of the person or company who discriminated against you;
- The dates when the discrimination took place; AND
- The name, address, and phone number of anyone who witnessed the discrimination take place.
Documents Produced
This program prepares the following forms. The forms you get will depend on your answers.
- How to File an IDHR Housing Discrimination Complaint
- Housing/Real Estate Complaint Information Sheet
- Addendum
Comments
(0)