Seventeen years is a long time to wait to realize a dream, but it was worth it for Jerry Jones III.
On Thursday, Jones strode across the grand ballroom stage at Navy Pier, shook hands with Mayor Rahm Emanuel and other dignitaries and proudly joined the family of Chicago firefighters that includes Jones’ father, a retired assistant commissioner who attended the graduation in his old uniform.
Jones, 40, is one of 98 new firefighters, 86 of whom had been waiting for the chance to join the Chicago Fire Department since 1995. They are among nearly 6,000 African-Americans bypassed by the city’s discriminatory handling of a 1995 firefighters entrance exam.
The oldest man was 56. The oldest woman was 54. The candidates admit there was a lot of huffing and puffing as they made it through the grueling fire academy training.
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20 still have not passed the emt test, any other candidate would be fired if they did not pass for the third time. This article said nothing about the 11 crossover who spent the last 6 six years on the ambulance getting their ass kicked, who also payed their own way through paramedic school. They are all white and the sun time would not recognize that. Sad day for the city we had to borrow 80 million to pay for this. We all pay !!!
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