What Illinois employers should know
Illinois requires the training during each calendar year, so the practical deadline is the end of the year rather than a rolling twelve months from the last session.
Restaurants and bars have a supplemental Illinois obligation on top of the general one, which is why that course exists separately.
Chicago layers city requirements on top of the Illinois requirement, with separate employee and supervisor training plus bystander intervention. An employer inside Chicago generally needs more than the state course alone.
What this page does not tell you
This is not legal advice, and it is not a complete statement of Illinois law. We publish the statutory reference our own course material cites and the practical points that material covers. We do not publish hour counts, deadlines or coverage thresholds that we cannot trace to a source, because a training vendor restating a requirement it has not verified is how an employer ends up under-trained while believing they are covered. For the current rule, go to the Illinois Department of Human Rights.
Our Illinois courses
Common questions
Who has to take harassment prevention training in Illinois?
The obligation generally follows where your employees work rather than where your company is registered, so an employer with staff in Illinois is usually covered even if headquartered elsewhere. Several states also treat supervisors differently from other employees. Confirm the current scope with the Illinois Department of Human Rights, which is the authority on who is covered.
Does online training meet the Illinois requirement?
Illinois expects interactive training, and our course is built to be interactive rather than a video you watch passively. It issues a dated certificate with a unique ID that anyone can verify. What a course cannot supply is your own policy, your named reporting contacts and your complaint route, and our material tells learners to find those from their employer rather than inventing them.
How do I prove we trained our staff?
Every trainee gets a certificate carrying their own name, the date, and a unique ID that an investigator or auditor can confirm on our verification page without an account. The name is the one the trainee confirms themselves at the end of the course, not the name on the card that paid for it.
Where can I read the actual Illinois rule?
Go to the Illinois Department of Human Rights. We link to it on this page. We publish the statutory reference our own course material cites and nothing beyond it, because a training vendor restating a requirement it has not verified is how employers end up under-trained while believing they are covered.