Black firefighter discrimination lawsuit tab twice as high as expected Chicago taxpayers must pay $78.4 million by Dec. 26 — twice as much as previously anticipated — to compensate nearly 6,000 African-American would-be firefighters bypassed by the city’s discriminatory handling of a 1995 entrance exam, a plaintiff’s attorney disclosed Monday. Last year, the city agreed to hire 111 bypassed black firefighters and pay $30 million to $40 million in damages to about 5 ... [News Source]