July 27, 2022
The city of Chicago has reached a settlement with a Latino firefighter on the day the parties were due to go to trial on his claim that he suffered severe racial harassment from his co-workers, creating a hostile work environment that his supervisors negligently failed to address and remedy.
February 18, 2021
The Chicago Fire Department beat most of a discrimination lawsuit brought by a Latino firefighter who said he faced ethnic slurs and other mistreatment at work, though an Illinois federal judge ruled Thursday that the firefighter's harassment claim can stand.