COOK COUNTY RECORD

Recent News About Airbnb Inc.

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  Challenge to Chicago Airbnb rules gets new life - if plaintiffs can prove they're allowed to sue

  By Jonathan Bilyk | Monday, Jan 14, 2019 @ 8:41pm

  A group of people challenging the city of Chicago’s Airbnb ordinance may get another chance to press their legal action asserting he two-year-old city rules largely barring them from renting their homes, condos and apartments to visitors through the online sharing site are unconstitutional.

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  Airbnb can't be sued for apartment tenants' listings that violate leases, bring in disruptive guests: Judge

  By Jonathan Bilyk | Wednesday, Feb 21, 2018 @ 3:50pm

  A Cook County judge has shut the door on an attempt by the owner of a luxury high-rise apartment building in Chicago’s Theater District to make Airbnb pay for allowing tenants to use the online short-term vacation rental platform to find tourists willing to sublet their apartments, which, the apartment building owners said, violate the terms of the leases, while disrupting life in the apartment building.

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