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Illinois Department of Human Rights (IDHR)

Type
Government body
Place
Illinois, United States — Illinois, USA
Last checked
2026-09-22
Next check due
2027-03-21

Ways to reach them

  • File a charge of discrimination — intake email · Complaint route
    Verified · 2026-09-22

    Most employment and public-accommodation cases, including AI-in-hiring discrimination. Submit a Complainant Information Sheet (CIS) by email, post or fax.

    VERIFIED at https://dhr.illinois.gov/charge-process/filers.html. IDHR states email is the recommended method.

  • Fair housing charges · Complaint route
    Verified · 2026-09-22

    Housing discrimination, including algorithmic tenant screening.

    VERIFIED on the same page.

  • Intake phone · Complaint route
    (312) 814-4294
    Verified · 2026-09-22

    Charge filing assistance.

    VERIFIED. Deadlines: most cases within 2 years of the discriminatory act; housing within 1 year.

  • Online filing portal · Web form
    none published
    Verification expired · 2026-09-22

    This route is retained as reference only. Its verification is missing, more than 180 days old, or the contact window is not currently open; do not rely on it until it is re-checked.

    n/a

    VERIFIED ABSENCE — IDHR has no online charge-filing portal; filing is by form submitted via email, post or fax.

  • Homepage · Homepage
    Unchecked

What it does

Enforces the Illinois Human Rights Act as amended by HB 3773 (effective 1 January 2026), which makes it a civil rights violation for an employer to use AI that discriminates on a protected characteristic, or to use zip code as a proxy for a protected class, and requires notice to employees and applicants when AI is used in employment decisions. IDHR investigates charges, makes substantial-evidence determinations, and cases proceed to the Illinois Human Rights Commission or to circuit court. Illinois also has BIPA (private right of action) and an AI Video Interview Act.

Its powers

investigate

Honest assessment

A named, monitored intake email with statutory deadlines behind it — this is a functioning complaint route, not a suggestion box, and a charge triggers an investigation with a determination. But it is individual-remedy machinery: you must be a person who suffered discrimination. It has no application whatsoever to frontier or catastrophic risk. Note the 2-year deadline is unusually generous compared to the federal EEOC's 300 days.

Notes

Illinois BIPA remains the more potent AI-adjacent lever in that state because it carries a private right of action and statutory damages, litigated in court rather than through IDHR.

Sources

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