Before writing new rules that affect 4,500 Airbnb hosts across the city of Chicago, you might expect city officials to hear what those people have to say. But some hosts say they’re being shut ...

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 ...

The report also found that almost all of Airbnb's revenue in the Chicago area — 96 percent, or more than $47 million — comes from operators who list units for rent more than 30 days a year.

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

So, yes, these new regulations aim to stop this. But I don't think Airbnb should have even let it get to vote. They should have gotten ahead of the "condo problem," long ago.

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 ...