Raise Illinois

Since we last updated this press page, raising the minimum wage has become a national issue. We regularly post national and local updated press coverage on the Raise Illinois facebook page.

Click below for press coverage of Raise Illinois’ march on the “Not-So-Magnificent Mile”

• WGN Channel 9 News
• Huffington Post
• FOX Chicago News
• MSNBC
• Chicago Tribune
• HOY
• ABC 7 News
• The Chicago Reporter
• NBC Chicago News
• Crain’s Chicago Business
• Progress Illinois
• Quad Cities Dispatch
• Belleville News-Democrat
• WDTK Detroit 1400 AM
• Houston Chronicle
• San Antonio Express-News
• Terre Haute Tribune-Star
• Canadian Business

Press coverage below of Raise Illinois’ press conference highlighting the fact that July 1st, 2011 was the first time in 5 years that minimum wage workers will receive no wage increase.

• Chicago Reporter, “Beep… Illinois minimum flatlines”

• Progress Illinois, “Number Of The Week: 1969″

• WJBC The Voice of Central Illinois, “Four years of minimum wage increases end in Illinois”

• The Chicago Citizen, “Coalition Demands Higher Minimum Wage”

• In These Times, “Illinoisans Call for Minimum Wage Increase”

• La Raza, “No aumentó el salario mínimo en Illinois”

• Gapers Block, “Raise the Minimum Wage?”

General media coverage about our fight to raise the minimum wage in Illinois:

• NY Times article: “Many Low-Wage Jobs Seen As Failing To Meet Basic Needs”

• Progress Illinois blog post about the Illinois Commission for the Elimination of Poverty supporting SB 1565

• Great editorial in the New York Times that calls for an increase in the minimum wage!

• Good video on Fox News Illinois about our fight to raise the minimum wage
• Daily Kos: “Illinois considers minimum wage increase“

• Northwest Herald: “Illinois Senator Pushes To Raise Minimum Wage”
• The Alestle: “Minimum wage increase will boost economy”

NEWS: Centro de Trabajadores Unidos, Restaurant Opportunities Center and the pastors of Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church and Pilgrim Baptist Church held a press conference to call for Illinois legislators to increase the minimum wage!

• Indiana Times: “Religious leaders, labor activists urge minimum wage hike“
• ABC News: “Group calls for increase in minimum wage“

NEWS: Warehouse Workers for Justice files lawsuit against temp agency for underpayment

Excerpt: “In the lead-up to the Christmas season – the holiday season – they worked an inordinate number of hours, well in excess of 40, for many of the weeks that they worked prior to the holidays,” said plaintiffs’ attorney Chris Williams, “and they were not even paid even the federal or state minimum wage.”

• Read article in TribLocal Joliet
• Read article and watch video at CBS Chicago

Media coverage from the press conference announcing the introduction of Senate Bill 1565, the bill to raise the Illinois minimum wage

• WJBC, Central Illinois Radio: “Group Pushes Minimum Wage Increase”
• Chicago Sun-Times: “Minimum wage would go to $10 under Senate bill”
• Progress Illinois blog: “An Ambitious Minimum Wage Bill For The New General Assembly”
• WGIL, Galesburg Radio: “Groups Want Minimum Wage Increase”
• Southown Star: “State Senate Dems propose raising minimum wage”
• STLtoday.com: “Boosting Illinois’ minimum wage is group’s goal”
• The State Journal-Register: “Illinois senator proposes minimum wage of $10 an hour”