Chicago crashes ahead with its destructive minimum wage hikes

As is typical when it comes to the minimum wage, Democrats in Chicago have managed to create new problems while trying to solve a problem that did not exist.

Chicago has a “restaurant crisis,” according to a Chicago Tribune editorial. The city is in the process of eliminating its tipped minimum wage for restaurant workers and raising their minimum wage to match the rest of the city. The tipped minimum wage just jumped again from $11 an hour to just under $13, and will continue to rise through 2028 until it hits the city’s minimum wage, which just jumped again to $16.60 an hour.