March 13, 2017
An Illinois federal judge won't bar the city of Chicago from implementing a new ordinance regulating short-term home renting through sites like HomeAway or Airbnb, she said Monday, rejecting a motion for an injunction brought by a group of hosts who say the rules are unconstitutional.
February 01, 2017
An Illinois federal judge on Wednesday sharply questioned an attorney for a Chicago advocacy group trying to block the city's shared-housing regulations, asking how commercial transactions like the ones taking place on Airbnb qualified for noncommercial speech protections under the First Amendment.