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LEGAL DEPART"2ENT MEMOR�VDUM <br /> No . 80-60 <br /> April 25 , 1980 <br /> T0: City Manager <br /> FROM: Corporation Counsel <br /> In re: City Code Chapter 59 .1 <br /> Real Estate Brokers <br /> Before home rule, and before an express delegation of powe= <br /> to ordain in the area of fair housing practices was legislated, <br /> it was thought by many that progress could be made by iicensing and <br /> regulating real estate brokers . There then existed an express dele- <br /> gation of power to cities so to do. <br /> After home rule, the legislature twice attempted to preempt <br /> cities from licensing or regulating real estate brokers along <br /> with a laundry list of other occ upations . In Andruss v. City of <br /> Evanston, 68 211 . 2d 216 , 369 N.E. 2d 1258 , 12 I11 . Dec . 244 ( 1977) <br /> the second effort of the legislature to so preempt was held valid <br /> and successful . <br /> Such decision renders the provisions of City Code Chapter <br /> 59 . 1 a nullity . <br /> At about the same time that Chapter 59 . 1 was ordained, the <br /> Council took a more direct, and then innovative approach to the fair <br /> housing problem by passing the plain, clear and acute provisions of <br /> Chapter 66 . 1 applicable alike to all persons and entities . Until <br />