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This timeline charts the ERC's rich history. The project extends the archive we began in 2023 to honor the late Rev. Jim Macdonell and Jim Gibson, two ERC founders.

ERC’s investigation found evidence of potential racial disparities in Chipotle’s hiring practices which may disadvantage Black applicants for restaurant management positions.

Thanks to all who made waves with us last week at our virtual members meeting!

The ERC’s investigation broke new ground by using matched-pair testing to systematically investigate the prevalence of racial discrimination throughout Chicago’s industrial staffing sector.

By Grant Beck, ERC Communications Officer   Despite the tremendous momentum of marriage equality throughout 2014, the new year presents a whole new set of challenges for the LGBT community. [...]

October is National Disability Employment Awareness month, and this year’s theme from the U.S. Department of Labor is “Expect. Employ. Empower.” Despite the fact that nearly one out of every five [...]

In an op-ed written for The Hill earlier this month, Judith Heumann, Special Advisor on International Disability Rights for the U.S. State Department, explained the global impact of the Americans [...]

The 50th anniversary of the historic passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 presents an opportunity for reflection on how far America has truly come in the long march toward equality. Our nation [...]

By Melvina Ford I have apparently reached that age when you start to have friends with children in college or on their way there. Perhaps that’s why Iappa’ve started paying more attention to who [...]

Today is Equal Pay Day in the United States—a day to acknowledge and reflect upon the gender pay gap that currently persists within our borders. April 8, 2014 is not an arbitrary date on the [...]