Editorial: Winter dining is coming. Start building the yurts. – Chicago Tribune*

"Nearly 600,000 people across Illinois work in restaurant and food service jobs, and the Illinois Restaurant Association estimates more than half of them have been laid off or furloughed during the pandemic...The Tribune’s running list of shuttered restaurants in the Chicago area has topped 50, and probably doesn’t account for dozens more tiny mom-and-pop spots that couldn’t make it. The corner diner. The taqueria. The all-night gyro shop. So many favorite places, gone."

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Lyn P
3 years ago

Government criminals are directly responsible for the collapse of independent restaurant businesses and these owners’/workers’ loss of livelihood.

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