January 13, 2017
CHICAGO — At least 91,000 of Chicago’s apartment and condo units, about 7.6 percent of all housing units in Chicago, are on the city’s list of places that cannot host guests through home-sharing services like Airbnb. The city recently made public a list of 940 buildings across Chicago that have submitted documents to the city to formally exclude short-term rentals from their buildings. The “Prohibited Housing List” was created after last summer’s passage of the Shared Housing Ordinance in attempts to regulate the use of Airbnb in residential neighborhoods…
Source: https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20170113/loop/airbnb-home-share-banned-michele-smith-shared-housing-ordinance