Barrows v. City of North Chicago

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE RECHENMACHER

delivered the opinioñ of the court:

Defendants appeal from a declaratory judgment adjudging that a vacancy exists in the defendant city’s police department to which plaintiff (“Barrows”), a patrolman in the city’s police department, is entitled to be promoted, and ordering his promotion to the rank of sergeant with payment to him, effective April 25, 1970, of the difference in salary corresponding to that rank. The individual defendants are the members of the city’s Board of Fire and Police Commissioners (“Board”) 1 and Edward Chrapkowski, the city’s chief of…