Restaurant workers and their City Council allies on Wednesday revved up their so-called “One Fair Wage” campaign emboldened by a new mayor who has vowed to eliminate the “sub-minimum wage” for tipped workers.
Four years ago, then-Mayor Lori Lightfoot threw a bone to progressives disappointed by her proposed 2020 budget by promising to raise Chicago’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2021 — four years faster than the state.
