Welcome.

This is the home page for Illinois Required Training Solutions’ 2024-2025 Chicago Bystander Intervention Training, part of a course bundle that contains annual sexual harassment training for Illinois employees as well as containing the specialized content required for workers within the City of Chicago.

This course meets and exceeds the bystander intervention training requirement of Chicago Ordinance 2022-665.  This Ordinance changed the Chicago city municipal code to require that every worker in Chicago receive one hour of bystander intervention training, in addition to their required sexual harassment prevention training, every year.

This course requires one hour (60 minutes) of time spent with the course content.  It does NOT have to be completed all in one sitting.  Some people take longer depending on their preferred learning speed.  The course has no maximum time limit to complete.

Disclaimer

Not Legal Advice

While this course has been developed by experts qualified to provide employee training, nothing on this site or in this or other courses is specifically intended to constitute legal advice or serve as a substitute for counsel with expertise in employment law.

To address specific needs in a particular workplace, Illinois Required Training Solutions strongly advises site users and visitors to consult in-house counsel or retain independent counsel to advise on industry-specific practices and other specifics and applications.

I’m not in Chicago, but want to take or offer Bystander Intervention training.  What should I do?

Shortly, we will offer Bystander Intervention Training as a standalone course alongside our MultiState (federal) course offerings.  Please see that page here.

I need the course bundle for NON professional workers instead.  Non bar/ restaurant (most) businesses.  What should I do?

If you’d like to purchase a Chicago NON-bar/restaurant (most businesses) Bundle for yourself now, please click on one of these buttons:

If you’d like to buy Chicago NON-bar/restaurant (most businesses) Bundles for your workers now, click on this link:

I need the course bundle for bar/ restaurant / coffee shop / hotel / casino workers instead.  What should I do?

If you’d like to purchase a Chicago Bar/Restaurant Bundle for yourself now, please click on one of these buttons:

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What Can I Expect From This Course or Course Bundle?

You'll do a lot of reading at your own pace, and a lot of clicking or tapping.

We're required to make our courses interactive and individualized, so we present material in small chunks, but as fast as you want to see it.  Don't worry, you don't have to complete the course all in one sitting.  If you need a break or to take care of something, feel free to step away.  While the system will time you out if you don't click or tap on anything for about ten minutes, every click or tap is saving your place and your progress.

You'll see a lot of cute pictures of animals.

We don't serve up a lot of cringeworthy pictures of people doing creepy things to others.  We're willing to bet you already know what creepy is, so we spare you the visuals.

We won't show you icky videos. 

For the same reason we don't show you ugly and possibly triggering pictures, we don't use videos in this course or in any of our sexual harassment prevention training or related courses.  Because the book is always better than the movie, we prefer to teach by positive example rather than making trainees squirm in discomfort.  We know you'll appreciate this.

You'll see a lot of cute pictures of animals.

We don't serve up a lot of cringeworthy pictures of people doing creepy things to others.  We're willing to bet you already know what creepy is, so we spare you the visuals.

We won't show you icky videos. 

For the same reason we don't show you ugly and possibly triggering pictures, we don't use videos in this course or in any of our SHPT or related courses.  Because the book is always better than the movie, we prefer to teach by positive example rather than making trainees squirm in discomfort.  We know you'll appreciate this.

The first few lessons teach you how to take the course.

We use the first few lessons to explain how to use the course controls, and there's a sample quiz to teach you how to take a quiz.  If you've taken one of our courses previously, this will all be familiar and you can skip through the intro part.  You'll be into the meat of the content quickly.

There are quizzes and a final exam.

But don't worry, all our quizzes, including the final exam, are retest-until-pass.  We don't count how many times anyone retakes any quiz.  And we always explain the quiz answers, including why the right answer is right and the other answer choices are wrong.  So it's easy to get 100% on our courses. 

Course completion certificates are issued immediately.

The instant a trainee successfully completes one of our training courses, they are taken to the Achievements tab of the My Dashboard control panel, where certificates of completion are linked in PDF format for immediate download simply by clicking on the course name.  Print, email, save or file as desired.  No waiting for an email that might take days to arrive or get stuck in spam or junk.

There's an online help resource.

In case you should need it, help is one click away.  Feel free to open the link and leave it open in another window or bookmark it if you'd like. 

Course Curriculum

This course as reviewed year to date:

Last year’s version of this course:

Disclaimer

Not Legal Advice

While this course has been developed by experts qualified to provide employee training under applicable state and local law, nothing on this site or in this or other courses is specifically intended to constitute legal advice or serve as a substitute for counsel with expertise in employment law.

To address specific needs in a particular workplace, Required Training Solutions strongly advises site users and visitors to consult in-house counsel or retain independent counsel to advise on industry-specific practices and other specifics and applications.