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The increase is part of a 2014 ordinance that will raise minimum wage to $13 per hour by 2019.
Baker Miller went public with its wage hike to prove it can be done, says co-owner Dave Miller.
After being elected to his second term, Ald. Matt O'Shea said economic development is a top priority.
Ald. Matt O'Shea (19th) and Anne Schaible are familiar foes in the race for 19th Ward alderman.
Mason Green, the owner of Bourgeois Pig Cafe , said the hike will force him to raise prices.
How will the minimum wage hike affect you or your business? Here are some answers.
Despite opposition from some business groups and aldermen, the hike was approved Tuesday.
The City Council votes at a "special meeting" Tuesday to raise it to $13 an hour over five years.
Business interests argued against an increase in the minimum wage, while workers supported it.
"We can’t wait any longer," said one McDonald's worker.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office estimated it would benefit about 1,000 workers, but impact many more.
Burns co-chaired the committee that recommended raising the minimum wage to $13 an hour by 2018.
But critics said it doesn't go far enough and "leaves out huge swaths of the workforce."
Aldermen, union members and community activists rejected the $13 recommendation by a mayoral task force.
They'll wait for the General Assembly to raise it statewide, but are "poised to move" in Chicago.
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And, no, they're not called Roosevelt and State.
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