The rental companies could overturn the bans by collecting signatures from 10% of the precinct voters, around 150 to 200 ...

For example, he has been pilloried by Chicago taxi drivers and ... on Tuesday called for stricter regulation, disputing the notion that the typical Airbnb host is someone occasionally renting ...

The City of Chicago is set to implement stricter regulations for short-term rental units, requiring Airbnb hosts to submit ...

Spokesman Ben Breit said in a statement that the company is “100 percent focused on educating the Chicago Airbnb host community about the new rules and regulations passed as part of the June ...

Valerie Landis has lived in Chicago for 12 years and has been renting her current condo on Airbnb since June, but the “hefty fines and penalties” in the new regulations are concerning.

Regulation is causing trouble for Airbnb hosts in Chicago. Some 1,200 hosts have received letters from the city threatening to reject their short-term rental licenses if they don’t update their ...

(CBS)-- The city of Chicago wants to crack down on nearly 5,000 Airbnb hosts in Chicago. Those are residents opening up their homes to strangers visiting the city. But while the mayor proposes new ...

"At this time, we are 100% focused on educating the Chicago Airbnb host community about the new rules and regulations passed as part of the June ordinance," he wrote in an email. The home-sharing ...

The new regulations call for an extra tax on home ... the continued protection of our communities and the citizens of Chicago." Airbnb was not involved in the lawsuit. Spokesman Ben Breit said ...

Airbnb does ask its hosts to comply with local regulations, according to the company’s public affairs manager, Alison Schumer, and lists Chicago’s rules on its Help Center page about the city.

The data shed light on exactly how much Airbnb has infiltrated the Chicago hospitality market, where many hoteliers are wary of do-it-yourself rivals that face little regulation. While Airbnb's ...