Tension had been building for years between the firefighters union, called the Chicago Fire Fighters Union ... about the history of the department that chronicled the 1980 strike and titled ...

A clause in a collective bargaining agreement from the early 1980s requires ... numbers aren’t unique to Chicago; the federal government has investigated fire departments in New York ...

The Chicago Fire Department did not respond to a request ... Minority representation among the battalion chief rank increased from 2% in 1980 to nearly 26% by 2020, according to numbers cited ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Chicago Fire Commissioner Richard ... discrimination at the Chicago Fire Department. They argued a 1980 consent decree should be amended to require roughly ...

The Northern District of Illinois ended the March 1980 Albrecht decree that mandated minority hiring for the Chicago Fire Department. Retired Chicago Fire Department Captain Ezra McCann called the ...

Every firefighters contract since 1980 has included a clause that mandates 45% minority hiring — 30% Black and 15% Hispanic representation at all levels of the Chicago Fire Department — but ...

Heroes of the Chicago Fire Department were killed in a massive fire ... The original mural was painted in the mid-1980s and retouched in the early 2000s. South Shore artist Damon Lamar Reed ...