Chicago landlord must pay $80,000 for threatening to call ICE on tenants

A Chicago landlord has been instructed to pay more than $80,000 to a tenant couple after he threatened to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement on them.

Marco Antonio Contreras and his wife, Denise Contreras, were the first people to be charged under the 2019 Immigrant Tenant Protection Act. The law forbids landlords from evicting tenants solely because of their immigration status or otherwise threatening to report tenants’ immigration status to threaten or retaliate against them.