Orlando Brown v. City of Chicago

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff, a former Chicago police officer, is black; claiming to have been discriminated against by his white supervisor, he filed suit against the City of Chicago in state court, charging racially motivated harassment, and retaliation for complaining about the harassment, all in violation of the Illinois Human Rights Act. While that suit was pending, the Chicago Police Board fired him — in retaliation, he alleges, for the internal complaints about harassment that he had made before he filed suit. Rather than amend his state court complaint to add a charge that his…