People Ex Rel. Reilly v. City of Chicago

Appellant filed in the circuit court of Cook county a petition for writ of mandamus to compel the Civil Service Commission of Chicago to re-instate him to the employment he formerly had in the department of gas and electricity as a laborer in that department, or, in case such order be not entered, that the commission be required to prefer written charges against him and allow him to be heard thereon in accordance with the Civil Service act relating to cities and the rules of the Civil Service Commission of the city of Chicago made pursuant thereto. After alleging the passage of the Civil…