Cox v. Board of Fire & Police Commissioners

PRESIDING JUSTICE GREEN

delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiff, Michael Cox, filed notice of appeal from two orders of the circuit court of Vermilion County, each purporting to dismiss, as not having been timely commenced, plaintiff’s suit brought under the Administrative Review Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1979, ch. 110, par. 264 et seq.) seeking review of a decision of defendant, the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners of the City of Danville (Board), discharging him from his employment as a police officer of that city.

The first notice of appeal was filed October 14, 1981, and was from an…