The City Council must act to protect our prized restaurants

On Tuesday, voters will go to the polls in one of the Chicago area’s more eventful primary days…
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I must be missing something. Why any politician would vote for a bill, much less sign one, that could lead to people losing income is beyond me.

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https://denverite.com/2025/06/06/denver-tipped-minimum-wage-new-law/

Colorado governor pressures Denver to lower tipped wages, but nobody is biting yet

Denver requires restaurants to pay servers at least $15.79 hourly in addition to the tips they receive.

Denverite

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Tipping is a legacy of slavery.

" I had no idea that tipping was a legacy of slavery or that racism and sexism had operated to keep women, especially Black women like me, shut out of federal protections for wage labor. I did not question tipping as a practice, though looking back I see that I should have."
~Michelle Alexander, a civil rights advocate
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/05/opinion/minimum-wage-racism.html

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Opinion | Tipping Is a Legacy of Slavery

Abolish the racist, sexist subminimum wage now.

The New York Times