The unemployment rate in the Chicago metropolitan area is 11.3 percent.
Many of Chicago's aldermen, more interested in placating their union pals, oppose Wal-Mart. Daley has some words for them:
Vote it up or down, and then go back and tell the people 'Hey, I got a job as alderman, but you don't have one, ha ha ha,'Currently the Wal-Mart expansion proposal is bottled up in the City Council Zoning Committee.
Much of the South Side is classified as a food desert, an area without a supermarket offering low-price groceries.
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