Case: Discrimination/Race Discrimination (N.D. Ill.)

Cook County is entitled to summary judgment on the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and Illinois Human Rights Act race discrimination claims of a Black former attending physician in the obstetrics and gynecology department at Chicago’s John Stroger Hospital alleging disparate treatment, a federal district court in Illinois ruled. The physician didn’t provide evidence of adverse action, where she wasn’t terminated, her salary steadily increased during her tenure at the hospital, her heavier workload as the sole practitioner in the urogynecology clinic didn’t constitute an adverse employment action, and offensive workplace comments made by the department chair were ...