Talk:Ordinance in Chicago requiring "big box" stores to pay higher wages passes

Request for information to add to the article

 * Voting roles from the city council vote
 * List of Chicago stores affected by ordinance.

If anyone has this information, please add it to the article. GuyFromChicago 15:57, 3 August 2006 (UTC)


 * NPR listed Target, Wal-Mart, and Home Depot, and also said that the vote was 2 votes over 2/3 (i.e., enough for a veto override) but I can't find a cite for it. siafu 16:53, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Headline is Missing a Verb
I suggest, "Big Box" Ordinance Approved in Chicago 151.190.254.108 17:20, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

What defines "Big Box"
Any info on how these stores are identified under the law? I'm rather sure laws in the U.S. cannot specify individuals/corporations by name. e.g. "From now on, Joe Blow will be taxed an extra 10% of his income." is not kosher. (Though sometimes anti-trust laws work this way, but if governments wouldn't discriminate to favor select corporations with grants and limited monopolies in the first place...)

The ordinance applies to stores of at least 90,000 square feet operated by companies with more than $1 billion in annual sales. Ok.

Also, what's the background on this? Why "Big Box" stores and not toy stores or book stores? Why the discrimination?

zuzu 02:43, 4 August 2006 (UTC)