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CHICAGO (AP) - Mayor Richard Daley's administration is lifting its self-imposed hiring freeze and accepting a federal monitor's recommendations for change, including adding a requirement that city officials swear under penalty of perjury that hirings aren't based on politics.
The court-appointed monitor urged sweeping changes to city personnel practices last week after finding officials had continued to defy a 22-year-old court-ordered ban on patronage hiring.
Daley chief of staff Ron Huberman said Friday that City Hall embraces the nature of the recommendations, but he said figuring out how to implement them will take time.
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