ILLINOIS (WCIA) -- The conversation around the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk has cost many their jobs.

In Springfield a city employee resigned this past week after making a post disparaging Kirk.

A similar thing happened in Urbana as well.

The city came out to condemn the post, but said the employee was acting as a private citizen and their speech was protected.

“If you say crazy stuff, you're going to face the consequences. And we've seen that primarily with work and work related incidences, when you lack empathy and you lack compassion and common sense, you are going to be correctly disciplined,” Senator Andrew Chesney, a member of Illinois Freedom Caucus, said.

The job losses in the wake of Kirk’s death have some questioning if the right to free speech is being infr

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