Chicago Board of Realtors, Inc. v. City of Chicago

The City of Chicago passed a law setting forth the rights of tenants and the duties of landlords. The ordinance also attempted to unify some of the regulation regarding landlord tenant relationships. Numerous plaintiffs filed suit challenging the constitutionality of the ordinance.

Legislative acts adjusting the burdens and benefits of economic life are presumed constitutional, and the burden is on one complaining of a due process violation to establish that the legislature has acted in an arbitrary and irrational way. Becasue the ordinance merely readjusts the power in the landlord/tenant relationship it does not deprive property without procedural due process.

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