The Invisible Drama Happening Over Our Heads

<p>Itwas an eventful week in Chicago. United Auto Workers has come to support the strike at Ford&rsquo;s Chicago Assembly Plant. Our city council passed a measure that will make us the first big city to abolish subminimum wage for tipped workers. We have 17,000 Venezuelans living in makeshift shelters, from a vacant hotel downtown to neighborhood park fieldhouses to police stations to O&rsquo;Hare airport, the inn that is Chicago is getting fuller.</p> <p><em>And people said cities were losing population.</em></p> <p>Bally&rsquo;s new temporary casino opened in the old Medinah Temple building, a gorgeous Moorish revival building built in 1912, bringing 80,000 visitors and 6.7 million in revenue in its first three weeks.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/ellemeno/the-invisible-drama-happening-over-our-heads-8eb38c3405ff"><strong>Read More</strong></a></p>