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PI Original
by Ellyn Fortino
4:37pm
Thu Apr 25
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Labor To Stand In Solidarity With Immigration Reform Advocates On May Day (VIDEO)

Labor

Chicago community, faith and labor allies said they stand in solidarity with immigrant rights advocates and will make a push for comprehensive immigration reform at the upcoming May Day workers' march and celebration in the city.

PI Original
by Ashlee Rezin
10:34am
Thu Apr 25

Hundreds Strike For Higher Wages In Chicago's Fast Food And Retail Industries (VIDEO)

Economy

It’s impossible to survive on $8.75 per hour, says Latasha Anderson, 31, an employee of Macy’s on Michigan Ave. in downtown Chicago. She was one of three retail associates from her store to participate yesterday in a citywide fast food and retail workers’ strike that prompted hundreds of employees to walk off the job.

Quick Hit
by Ashlee Rezin
4:46pm
Wed Apr 24

Unite Here, Hilton Reach Contract Agreement Without A Lengthy Battle

Four months before their existing contracts were set to expire, more than 600 Hilton Hotel workers represented by Unite Here Local 1 and Local 450 have reached a five-year contract settlement with the hotel chain.

Workers’ from the Drake, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago Hilton, and Hilton O’Hare voted Saturday to ratify the agreement with the Virginia-based hotel chain, well before the August 31 contract expiration date. 

“This is really significant in that this has all been done before the expiration of the current contract,” said Carly Karmel, spokesperson for Unite Here. 

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Quick Hit
by Ellyn Fortino
3:28pm
Wed Apr 24
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Henson Elementary Hosts Unity Rally Against School Closings

Students at Matthew Henson Elementary released dozens of balloons Tuesday afternoon signifying their unity and hope that the school will remain open despite the Chicago Public Schools' plan to shut it down in June.

“Henson is everything a community school ought to be," said Valerie Leonard, of the Lawndale Alliance and the Committee to Save North Lawndale Schools. "They’re the model for what we want to include in all of our schools in North Lawndale."

Henson has a health clinic, a parent resource center, two technology labs and a library, speakers at the rally said.

“The school that they’re going to doesn’t have nearly the number of resources that Henson has," Leonard said. Read more »

Quick Hit
by Ellyn Fortino
5:33pm
Tue Apr 23

Uptown Residents Decry Proposed $220 Million Luxury Housing Development At 46th Ward Zoning Meeting

Opponents of a planned $220 million luxury residential building in Uptown were ignored and not permitted to ask the 46th Ward’s Zoning and Development Committee questions about the project at its meeting Monday night.

Members of the advisory committee, put in place by Ald. James Cappleman (46th), adjourned its monthly meeting at Weiss Memorial Hospital despite multiple people who had waited patiently with their hands raised to comment on the plan, which calls for 842 mostly high-income units.

“We are totally opposed to this plan,” Marc Kaplan of Northside Action for Justice shouted as some committee members quickly filed past him out of the the hospital’s auditorium. Read more »