Griffin v. City of Chicago

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION DONNA GRIFFIN, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) No. 19 C 8135 v. ) ) Judge Sara L. Ellis CITY OF CHICAGO, a municipal corporation, ) ) Defendant. ) OPINION AND ORDER In 2015, Donna Griffin was training to become a Fire Paramedic with the Chicago Fire Department (“CFD”) at the CFD’s Training Academy (“Academy”). After Griffin was injured performing a physical test that, according to her, the CFD instituted solely to eliminate women from the Academy, the CFD terminated Griffin’s employment. Griffin and several other female paramedics…