Hiring Process

On February 7, 2006, the federal judge in the case of Shakman v. City of Chicago signed a court order authorizing the Inspector General’s Office to follow hiring procedures that make the Office independent from the rest of City government. On June 29, 2011, the Court approved the 2011 City of Chicago Hiring Plan, which included the “Inspector General’s Office Hiring Procedures.”  These procedures apply only to the Inspector General’s Office. These Hiring Procedures are intended to provide the Inspector General’s Office with a method of hiring employees that maximizes the independence of the Inspector General’s Office and helps to ensure that its employees are nonpartisan and free from conflicts of interest. We fill positions directly without going through the Department of Human Resources.