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SMITH v. CITY OF CHICAGO

No. 86-1744.

820 F.2d 916 (1987)

Harold SMITH, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF CHICAGO, an Illinois Municipal Corporation, Edward A. Quigley, formerly Commissioner, Department of Sewers, City of Chicago, Miles McDarrah, Superintendent of Repairs, Department of Sewers, City of Chicago, and Freddie Jones, formerly District Foreman, 4th District, Department of Sewers, City of Chicago, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 10, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen J. Senderowitz, Stone, McGuire & Benjamin, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellant.

Jennifer A. Keller, Office of Corp. Counsel, Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellees.

Before POSNER and FLAUM, Circuit Judges, and GRANT, Senior District Judge.

GRANT, Senior District Judge.

Harold Smith held a number of positions in his ten years of employment with the City of Chicago. He alleges that in November 1982, soon after he performed volunteer work for one mayoral candidate, he was demoted from bricklayer to laborer. Smith contends he was informed by defendants Jones and McDarrah that he was demoted for working against then-Mayor Jane Byrne. Nearly two years later, on June 29, 1984, he was discharged. In August...

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