December 08, 2023
An Illinois federal jury said Springfield, Illinois, should pay a white former budget employee $100,000 for promoting a Black worker over her and then disciplining her when she complained, just over a year after the Seventh Circuit revived the suit because of the city's conflicting explanations.
October 19, 2022
The Seventh Circuit has renewed an Illinois woman's claims that she was passed over for a promotion within the city of Springfield's government because she is white, reversing the lower court's summary judgment ruling because the city told conflicting stories about its hiring decision.