I loved this part of your link:
""I'm for jobs in this community, but I have an insult level," said state Rep. Mary Flowers (D-Chicago). "People need a livable wage. As an African-American woman, I once worked for $1 an hour. I'm not talking about what I don't know."
Gee, as a Caucasian I once worked for $1 an hour, too - that is what is known as a starting wage. The general understanding is that you move up from there. Her assumption that only African Americans have to build from the ground up is unbelievable. I guess she thinks we all should start out in "management" positions and a wage to go with the title.
And the sweet irony is that of the 30,000 job applicants at the EP walmart, 29,500 of them were city residents and 500 were suburbanites (actually figure cited in the Sun-Times).
The city of Chicago is really "in touch" with the interests of their residents, aren't they? lol.