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  IDOT ordered to pay $774K in fees to lawyers for Muslim ex-worker who claimed discrimination

  By Charmaine Little | Thursday, Jan 24, 2019 @ 6:29pm

  The state of Illinois has been ordered to pay nearly $800,000 in legal fees to lawyers representing a Muslim employee of the Illinois Department of Transportation after a jury found IDOT supervisors had retaliated against him and did not give him space to pray and practice his religion. The ex-IDOT worker received more than $1.2 million in damages and back pay and benefits.

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