Legal Opinion
Whipple v. Department of Rehabilitation Services
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided January 12, 1995No. 4-94-0240PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Green
In July 1991, the Illinois Department of Rehabilitation Services (DORS) discharged petitioner, Carole Whipple, after five months of employment as an office associate. Later that month, Whipple filed a handicap discrimination charge (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1991, ch. 68, par. 2 — 102(A)) with the Illinois Department of Human Rights (Department), claiming DORS had discriminated against her by failing to provide reasonable accommodation and by discharging her from her employment on the basis of her hearing impairment (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1991, ch. 68, par. 1 — 103(I)(1)). In August 1993, the Department…
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