CHICAGO — The Chicago Tribune has filed a lawsuit against the city of Chicago over records on cases involving misconduct allegations that officials have refused to release despite two separate attorney general opinions in the newspaper’s favor.
The lawsuit asks a Cook County judge to uphold Freedom of Information Act requests made over the last two years by reporters Gregory Pratt and Jeremy Gorner.
The lawsuit alleges one of the city’s motives in blocking a September 2020 records request from Pratt was to save the workers accused of mistreating other employees throughout Chicago government from “embarrassment.”
