Lupo v. Board of Fire & Police Commissioners

We granted a rehearing based on plaintiff’s claim that he has been denied constitutional equal protection. He now argues that a requirement that an officer be given warnings prior to interrogation found in the civil service provisions in division I of article 10 of the Municipal Code (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1977, ch. 24, par. 10 — 1—18) must be read in pari materia with the provision here applicable to a division II municipality. Ill. Rev. Stat. 1977, ch. 24, par. 10 — 2.1—17.

Plaintiff relies on Palcek v. City of Chicago Heights (1979), Ill. Rev. Stat. 702, published subsequently to his oral…