Chicago’s Amazon Bid: More at Stake Than Just Tax Dollars
Amazon’s logistics footprint expands with the help of billions in tax dollars, but scholars find their promise of job growth empty.
Even more reasons to raise the minimum wage
A new study from the Voorhees Center for Neighborhood and Community Improvement at the University of Illinois at Chicago shows that increasing the minimum wage would allow more workers to find affordable housing. Meanwhile, the number of low-wage jobs would not...
May Day in Chicago yesterday and today
On May 1, 1886, 80,000 workers marched down Michigan Avenue in Chicago in support of the eight-hour day. In the next few days, nationwide, 350,000 workers (including 70,000 in Chicago) went on strike at 1,200 factories. Since that time, May Day, or International...Crashing
A review of the hundreds of expenditures every year authorized by the unelected Board of Education shows hundreds of millions of dollars in payments to vendors. These vendors are seldom required to prove that they are worth the money paid to them.
Community Resources, Not More Incarceration
Chicago Police Department superintendent Garry McCarthy was fired by Mayor Emanuel last Tuesday, after protesters have been demanding it for months. Back in October, members of the Black Caucus of the city council demanded his replacement because crime is still...
Stockholders Profit while Chicago Families Lose Good Union Jobs
Manufacturing in Chicago has taken another dive as the snack bakery that makes Oreos, Wheat Thins and other popular snacks is closing half of the plant and moving it to Mexico. The plant is located in the Chicago Lawn community at 73rd and Kedzie. The international...
