Ivan Rittenberg, an attorney for the plaintiffs told the Crusader that although Chief Judge Timothy Evans is named a defendant in the case, he has immunity by
“My heart is still with the Chicago Fire Department. But my heart and my devotion lies with residents of the 45th Ward, a community that helped raise me,” Ald. Jim Gardiner said, though he objected to being forced to choose.
A recent appellate court ruling involving the firing of a Country Club Hills police officer for lying sheds light on the roles of arbitrators who decide disciplinary cases just as state lawmakers consider major police reform legislation.