A Denver woman who was in town for her baby shower is considering filing a lawsuit against a Roselle bar for kicking her out for being pregnant. Michelle Lee was at the Coach House Restaurant and Bar drinking water when she was asked by a bouncer if she was pregnant. The eight-months-along Lee couldn't hide it and confirmed she was and was then asked to leave, along with her friends. The bouncer said that the bar could be liable if she wound up hurting herself. more ›

A college administrator at Benedictine University in Springfield is accusing the university of firing her over a wedding announcement she and her wife filed in the Springfield State Journal-Register. more ›

A white Bridgeport couple is facing discrimination charges from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for allegedly pulling their home off the market rather than sell it to a black couple that submitted the highest offer. Local comedian George Willborn and his wife made the highest offer - reported to be $1.7 million - on the home owned by Daniel and Adrienne Sabbia in January of this year. But the Sabbias, who had listed the house for $1.799 million, then pulled the house, which they had been trying to sell for two years, off the market. The Sabbias claimed they decided to stay put, unable to find another home to move in to. Jeffrey Lowe, the Sabbias' real estate agent, denied to the Willborns' broker at the time that it was about the Willborns' race. more ›

Union leaders and the Rev. Jesse Jackson claimed last week that the CTA cuts impact poor and minority communities on the South Side more harshly than communities on the North Side. The CTA, of course, responded that bus and rail lines travel through many different neighborhoods on their routes. Also, officials said they made decisions about the service cuts in accordance with federal anti-discrimination guidelines. These specifically make sure public transit serves poor and minority communities equally, at the risk of losing federal funding. more ›

DePaul students and faculty are up in arms, holding protests and sit-ins over alleged gender discrimination in the university's tenure system, the Chicago Tribune reports. more ›

Later Tunney acknowledged that there isn’t a consensus in the LGBT community whether to pursue a special category as a qualified minority. He told the Sun-Times: more ›

In an unforeseen move, lawyers representing City Colleges of Chicago argued in court Friday morning that two out of four charges filed against them by a former employee should not be dismissed in a discrimination case. more ›

Abal Zaidi, 31, was a corrections officer for the Kane County Sheriff's Department. He's also an observant Muslim, which he says requires him to have a beard. In December 2006, Sheriff Pat Perez announced that all officers had to be clean-shaven; Zaidi asked for an exception, and he says two days later, he was asked to resign. Zaidi filed a religious discrimination suit, seeking unspecified damages and an apology. more ›

According to Crain's Chicago Business, three doctors are suing Cook County for employment discrimination.

Three doctors who were laid off amid widespread layoffs at Cook County’s health system last year are suing the county, claiming officials ignored their seniority in making the job cuts. more ›