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A new minimum wage was approved Tuesday in Chicago, where fast food workers and activists demonstrated outside McDonald's downtown restaurant this summer.

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Mayor, City Council Approves $13 Minimum Wage Increase by 2019

Chicago employees currently earning the $8.25 minimum wage, received an early Christmas gift with the City Council ordinance approval on Tuesday that hikes hourly worker’s pay over the next four years to $13 per hour by 2019.