DOJ Says It Its Investigating Chicago Mayor’s Hiring Practices

The Department of Justice (DOJ) said it would launch a civil rights investigation into Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s office over allegations that he engaged in race-based discrimination when hiring. In a letter to Johnson’s office posted on social media platform X, DOJ Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon wrote that she “authorized an investigation” into whether Johnson’s city has “engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination,” after the Democratic mayor commented on his hiring practices during an event over the weekend. “If these kind of hiring decisions are being made for top-level positions in your administration, then it begs the question of whether such decisions are also being made for lower-level positions,” Dhillon wrote to him....