CHICAGO (AP) — Low-wage workers and their advocates
will march along Chicago's "Magnificent Mile" to campaign for an
increase in Illinois' minimum wage.
The march begins Thursday at 11 a.m. along Michigan
Avenue from the Tribune Tower Plaza to Huron Street.
The event is sponsored by Raise Illinois. It's a
coalition of community, business, religious and labor organizations working for
an increase in the minimum wage.
The coalition contends the General Assembly has
helped businesses along Chicago's premiere shopping street by reforming the
workers' compensation law. They want lawmakers to increase the minimum wage
from the current $8.25 an hour gradually over four years to more than $10.
The group says that's the equivalent in today's
dollars of what minimum-wage workers made in 1969.
Copyright 2011 The Associated Press.
