POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff sued an Illinois town by which he had been employed, and one of the town's employees, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983; he claims to have been fired in violation of his federal constitutional rights to due process of law and freedom of speech. The district court dismissed the suit as barred by collateral estoppel.
Initially the plaintiff asked the state's Department of Employment Security for benefits under the state's Unemployment...
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