“We’ve seen a tremendous number of restaurants closed since this was enacted. We’re also seeing that restaurateurs are having to have less back-of-the-house staff because they’re having to pay their servers so much more money,” Ald. Samantha Nugent said. "The federal minimum wage is $7.25 … I just want to contextualize where we are on this."
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
You mean just like they told you BEFORE you passed this.
Unfortunately once gone is typically a permanent condition.