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 ...

Before writing new rules that affect 4,500 Airbnb hosts across the city of Chicago, you might expect ... to vote later this month on new citywide regulations for short-term rentals and room ...

Burns said Airbnb is giving homeowners across Chicago a chance to make some extra ... bottom line and aren't subject to the same strict regulations, putting them at a disadvantage.

The regulations went into full effect in March ... Before the deadline on May 1, there were about 6,500 active hosts in Chicago. Airbnb declined to comment on the current number of hosts.

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 ...

That first lawsuit called Chicago's Airbnb rules "literally incomprehensible." Now you can add "draconian and unintelligible" to the list of colorful descriptors—that's how the regulations are ...

"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 ...

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.