January 22, 2026
The Chicago Transit Authority put a former employee into an "impossible dilemma" and forced him to choose between honoring his Christian faith or receiving a COVID-19 vaccine when it flatly rejected his vaccination exemption request and later fired him for mandate noncompliance, Illinois federal jurors heard Thursday.
September 29, 2025
An Illinois federal judge has found there are too many open questions to give a win to the Chicago Transit Authority in a former employee's suit over its decision to terminate him after he sought a religious exemption to the agency's mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy.