Office of Inspector General
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Quarterly Report of the Office of Inspector General Second Quarter 2017
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Joseph M. Ferguson Inspector General
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
City of Chicago
740 N Sedgwick. Suite.200 Chicago, Illinois 60654 Telephone: (773) 478-7799 Fax: (773) 478-3949
July 15,2017
To the Mayor, Members of the City Council, the City Clerk, the City Treasurer, and the residents of the City of Chicago:
Enclosed for your review is the public report on the operations of the City of Chicago Office of Inspector General (OIG) during the second quarter of 2017, filed with the City Council pursuant to Section 2-56-120 of the Municipal Code of Chicago.
This quarter resulted in the disposition of significant administrative investigations, among other matters. More specifically, an OIG investigation found egregious, offensive racist and sexist emails distributed by and among employees of the Department of Water Management (DWM) that extended to senior levels of department management and that suggested the existence of an unrestricted culture of overt racist and sexist behavior and attitudes within the department. OIG recommended that DWM discharge multiple employees and refer them to the ineligible for rehire list maintained by the Department of Human Resources. This led to the resignation of several senior DWM officials. Additionally, an OIG investigation established that multiple Office of Emergency Management (OEMC) employees engaged in a preferential treatment scheme operating with the knowledge, approval and coordination of certain members of senior management that involved routinely and programmatically closing off a city street from the public to reserve it for free parking for friends and family attending events at the United Center. OIG ...
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