Illinois raised its minimum wage to $15 an hour in January. This increase is the last of six years of legislation, raising the minimum wage one dollar a year, since January 2019. Despite the extra dollar...
When DePaul University junior Breya Jones heard that Illinois was raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour, she felt like it was a validation that her work is valued by the community. Like many studying...
Beneath the golden rays of sunshine, protesters of McDonald’s golden arches massed by the thousands on UIC’s campus Wednesday as part of the nationwide Fight for $15 movement. Nestled in a crowd...
Chicago is a getting a raise.
The city council on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly in favor of Mayor Emanuel’s plan to raise the city’s minimum wage to $13 an hour by 2019.
The move comes after...
For Chicago college students like Venice Adams, raising the minimum wage in Illinois is the only way to continue pursuing a college degree.
Adams, a senior at Columbia College Chicago, works two minimum-wage...
“I’m not going to support (a minimum wage) that absolutely puts people out of work. It just doesn’t make sense,” Pat Toomey, a Republican senator from Pennsylvania, said.
That type of sentiment...
Mayor Rahm Emanuel signed an executive order last week raising the minimum wage for employees of contractors and subcontractors doing business with the city.
The new hourly floor will be $13...
