Smith v. Illinois Department of Transportation

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION TERRY SMITH, ) ) Plaintiff, ) No. 15 C 2061 ) v. ) ) Judge Edmond E. Chang ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF ) TRANSPORTATION, ) ) Defendant. ) MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER In August 2013, Terry Smith started a six-month probationary period as an Emergency Traffic Patrol Minuteman with the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT). R. 55, DSOF ¶ 4.1 But Smith never became a permanent employee, see DSOF ¶ 6—IDOT fired him in January 2014, after Smith accumulated several poor performance evaluations and engendered…