Members of the Chicago City Council, take a look at this map. What do you see? (Click here for map)Read the whole thing!
You see 44 dots.
Every dot is a Wal-Mart in the Chicago area. Every dot is a place where people go to work and draw a paycheck. Every dot produces sales tax revenue. Every dot caters to people who want to buy shoes and socks and TVs and tires and whatever else draws them to Wal-Mart.
If we widened this map to take in all of Illinois, there would be 148 dots.
If we widened it again to take in all of the U.S., there would be 3,514 dots.
So, aldermen. How's that campaign going to protect Chicagoans from the scourge of working for Wal-Mart?
Dispatches from Chicago's south side.
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
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