Feeley v. O'CONNOR

This is an appeal from a declaratory judgment entered in the Superior Court of Cook county finding that the defendant Timothy J. O’Connor, Commissioner of Police of the city of Chicago, is without power or authority to order, direct or assign policewomen to perform the duties of matrons (police), or to integrate the duties of policewomen and matrons (police), or to assign matrons (police) to the performance of the duties of policewomen.

Plaintiffs filed their complaint on behalf of themselves as policewomen and as representatives of the class of policewomen in the classified civil service of…