Also from Clout St. Mayor Daley makes his comments about getting more Wal-Marts into the city:
Chicago should open its arms to Wal-Mart just as the suburbs do, Mayor Richard Daley said today.Honestly I'm with the mayor on this. The suburbs aren't debating whether or not Wal-Mart is offering enough pay and benefits to their employees. They accept them with open arms. Why can't Chicago?
“These questions are not debated in the suburban area,” he said. “They are never even talked about.”
The mayor was responding to a failed attempt by Ald. Edward Burke, 14th, the influential Finance Committee chairman, to force the mega-retailer and other smaller operators to pay a higher minimum wage in the city if they receive any type of city subsidy.
Most retailers receive such subsidies, either directly or indirectly, when they open stores in new developments.
Daley was addressing for the second time in recent weeks a long-standing stalemate in Wal-Mart’s effort to build more stores in Chicago and added that he was making plans to resolve the issue. “We will mention it when we finish it,” he said, declining to reveal details.
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Although the mayor has the authority to simply sign off on Wal-Mart stores in areas appropriately zoned for them, like the one in Brookins’ ward, he has refused to do so, saying he wants a majority of aldermen to reach agreement on the issue.
this is the list of super walmart center like the one they want to bring to chatham
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Wal-Mart Supercenter in Carmi
Wal-Mart Supercenter in Champaign
Wal-Mart Supercenter Danville
Wal-Mart Supercenter in Decatur
Wal-Mart Supercenter in Dekalb
Wal-Mart Supercenter in Du Quoin
Wal-Mart Supercenter Peoria
Wal-Mart Supercenter Effingham
Wal-Mart Supercenter Fairfield
Wal-Mart Supercenter Highland
Wal-Mart Supercenter Jerseyville
Wal-Mart Supercenter Kewanee
Wal-Mart Supercenter Litchfield
Wal-Mart Supercenter Macomb
Wal-Mart Supercenter Mattoon
Wal-Mart Supercenter Moline 3930
Wal-Mart Supercenter Morris
Wal-Mart Supercenter Mount Vernon 110
Wal-Mart Supercenter Normal
Wal-Mart Supercenter in O`Fallon
Wal-Mart Supercenter Pekin
Wal-Mart Supercenter Plano
Wal-Mart Supercenter Princeton
Wal-Mart Supercenter Quincy
Wal-Mart Supercenter Rockford
Wal-Mart Supercenter Salem
Wal-Mart Supercenter Sparta
Wal-Mart Supercenter Sterling
Wal-Mart Supercenter Taylorville
Wal-Mart Supercenter Vandalia
Wal-Mart Supercenter Washington
Wal-Mart Supercenter Waterloo
NOW, which one of these suburbs is not little west or east of lala land and what they got to loose if they let wallmart in?
LOOK AT THIS PAGE- walmart Illinois- http://walmartstores.com/factsnews/statebystate/State.aspx?st=IL
what do you see?
As of January 2010, the average wage for regular, full-time hourly associates in Illinois is $12.02 per hour?
REALLY? ALL WHAT THE LABOR UNION ASKING FOR IS $11.03 an hour. Honestly, F walmart Arrogant and greedy