20 black Chicago firefighters hired after lawsuit were not medically cleared; two died off-duty

In a rush to appease the Negro vote, 20 black Chicago firefighters hired after lawsuit were not medically cleared; two died off-duty

CHICAGO (STMW) - At least 20 of the 111 black firefighters hired by the Chicago Fire Department after a marathon discrimination lawsuit had not been medically cleared by a department physician before starting work and two of them “suffered serious medical events and died while off-duty,” the city’s inspector general disclosed Tuesday.

Under Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Chicago resolved a bitter legal battle the mayor inherited from former Mayor Richard M. Daley stemming from the city’s discriminatory handling of a 1995 firefighters entrance exam, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting.

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