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The Office of Labor Standards would enforce Chicago’s minimum wage increase, guaranteed paid sick days, and guard against wage theft for vulnerable workers.
About a third of students leaving segregated, low-income Chicago schools end up back in majority black and poor suburban schools, our analysis shows.
Un análisis de miles de denuncias de robo de salario muestra que hay poca probabilidad de que un trabajador recupere su sueldo en Illinois.
Los trabajadores que reportan robo de salarios ahora enfrentan periodos de espera más largos, un porcentaje mayor de despidos y más burocracia.
An analysis of thousands of wage complaints shows that workers face long odds of recouping pay in Illinois.
Low-wage workers face long waits and high dismissal rates when filing stolen wage claims with the state labor department.
This interactive map tracks the status of the Chicago public schools still empty after mass closures in 2013, providing details on which have been sold and repurposed and which have yet to be reused.
As Illinois’ same-day registration law faces a legal challenge, here’s the racial breakdown on where Chicagoans took advantage of it in the first election since it was enacted.
From poverty to household earnings to Internet access, economic conditions for black and Hispanic residents lag behind those of whites according to newly published figures.
Black neighborhoods with a legacy of disinvestment and segregation struggle to repurpose shuttered schools.