Urbana HRC Censures Suburban Express

From the News-Gazette's coverage of last night's Urbana Human Relations Commission meeting (more on the Urbana HRC):

Suburban Express censured
Group weighs in on ‘China’ ad months after controversy

Urbana’s Human Relations Commission approved a statement Wednesday condemning Suburban Express, a local private transportation company, for an advertisement

last December widely considered to be racist.

The statement comes more than three months after Suburban Express released the ad, which listed its benefits, including, “Passengers like you. You won’t feel like you’re in China when you’re on our buses.”
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It follows a subpoena for company records issued in December by Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, which Suburban Express has complied with. The attorney general’s office is still reviewing those documents for any violations of the Illinois Human Rights Act, which says that public accommodations cannot be denied to someone based on certain factors, including race and national origin.

“No update at this point,” said Annie Thompson, the attorney general’s press secretary...

The commission’s statement encouraged anyone who may have been discriminated against to report it to the Champaign Community Relations Office, since Suburban Express’s office is in Champaign, or to the Urbana Human Relations Commission.

Full article here.