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NORTH CHICAGO, IL – The city of North Chicago is is leaning on a seldom used state law that allows them to recall retired officers during an emergency situation. The city believes that it has hit that “emergency” threshold to invoke the law. The North Chicago Police Department was unable to adequately staff their 9-1-1 dispatch center, which they subsequently closed. The city argued that at one point prior to the closing, they were only able to have six employees to cover the call center around the clock, seven days a week.

A Muslim officer who was fired by the North Chicago Police Department last month is suing for religious discrimination, claiming he was fired after complaining about harassment. “I risked my life so someone could sleep better. And this is not right. This is not right what they did to me,” said Ramtin Sabet. Sabet started working for the North Chicago police in 2007, and the Iranian born officer said the harassment started a few years later. […] “I would show up to calls, they’d say, ‘oh Mr. Taliban pulled up here’, I would call in lunch breaks on the radio...

January 15, 2009 # Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2009/January/09-nsd-041.html Chicago Cousins Plead Guilty to Conspiracy to Provide Material Support to Terrorists WASHINGTON – Zubair Ahmed, 29, and Khaleel Ahmed, 28, both residents of Chicago, pleaded guilty today in the Northern District of Ohio to conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists in connection with their efforts to travel abroad in order to murder or maim U.S. military forces in Iraq or Afghanistan. Today’s guilty pleas were announced by Matthew Olsen, Deputy Assistant Attorney General for National Security; William J. Edwards, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of...