According to a 2015 report by Airbnb, 4,550 Airbnb hosts in Chicago had people stay with them from July 2014 to June 2015. One Airbnb hostess is Valerie Landis.

Wolf’s group has filed suit against Chicago’s new regulations on Airbnb rentals; a second lawsuit with different plaintiffs was filed Nov. 15, 2016. By Ally Marotti.

More than four months after Chicago’s contentious short-term rental ordinance took full effect, the city is not enforcing some penalties outlined in the new rules. Airbnb hosts, meanwhile, have ...

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.

A final vote on new regulations for house-sharing services like Airbnb has been delayed until next month, after some aldermen objected to approving changes presented by the Emanuel administration ...

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.

There are 6,400 Airbnb hosts in Chicago, the San Francisco-based company said in November. About 371,000 guests stayed in the city between Nov. 1, 2015, and Nov. 1, 2016. (c)2016 Chicago Tribune ...

Airbnb should have gotten ahead of the "condo problem," long ago. Airbnb should have gotten ahead of the "condo problem," long ago. This is an excerpt from Wednesday's Beat, our daily back-and ...

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.

EAST CHICAGO — The City Council is considering what can be done to regulate Airbnbs in the city. The topic had been discussed before an incident June 3 at a house that was being rented in the ...

As City Hall gets ready to enforce its new home-sharing regulations, the supply of Airbnb's most important raw material—homes—is shrinking, and fast. So far, 901 residential buildings with ...

A judge has ordered the city of Chicago to hold off on implementing new restrictions on Airbnb and other home-sharing platforms after a group of homeowners sued the city last month.