Callahan v. Edgewater Care & Rehabilitation Center, Inc.

The plaintiff, Melissa Callahan, appeals from an order of the circuit court dismissing her common-law retaliatory discharge action against the defendant Edgewater Care & Rehabilitation Center, Inc., d/b/a Sheridan Shores Care & Rehabilitation Center (Edgewater). This appeal raises a very narrow issue: namely, whether the enactment of the Whistleblower Act (740 ILCS 174/1 et seq. (West 2004)) repealed by implication the common-law action for retaliatory discharge then existing in favor of an individual who is discharged from her employment for reporting illegal or improper activity to someone…