CITY HALL — The City Council approved a $3.1 million settlement Wednesday for police hiring discrimination under Mayor Richard M. Daley.
The settlement, approved Monday by the Finance Committee, sets $10,000 payments for the 47 applicants who passed a 2006 police entrance exam but were ruled ineligible to be hired because they had not lived in the United States for 10 years.
Aldermen Nicholas Sposato (38th), Anthony Napolitano (41st) and David Moore (17) voted against the deal.
Under Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the city has cut the U.S. residency requirement for police recruits to five years, which has resulted in only one or two disqualifications since 2011, passing legal muster, according to the U.S. Department of Justice, which filed the suit last week in a procedural move along with the settlement announcement.
As part of the deal, the city will also hire eight of those applicants who were disqualified under the old rules.
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