Wal-Mart Going to Chicago

By a vote of 32 to 15, the Chicago City Council passed an ordinance to allow Wal-Mart to build one store and conduct business on vacant, blighted land on the West Side. The debate was emotional.

The anti-Wal-Mart forces included about a hundred noisy demonstrators. One outburst got an activist kicked out of the council meeting, where aldermen gave fiery speeches about Wal-Mart's reputation for mistreating workers, bullying suppliers, and destroying communities.

I'm not sure how Wal-Mart could destroy vacant, blighted land, but the protesters are sure it will happen. For some reason, they are very critical of their aldermen when they succeed in bringing new businesses to Chicago.