Protesters March Downtown Demanding $15-An-Hour Minimum Wage
(CBS) -- Traffic came to a halt on a few downtown streets for a while Tuesday evening as a couple thousand demonstrators marched, demanding a $15-an-hour minimum wage.
The street-marching and demonstrating began in front of the Thompson Center with impassioned speeches.
Quietly making his own statement to a reporter: Willie Strong.
"My job? I work at a meat company in South Holland."
WBBM: And what do you make?
"$10.50."
He would like to make more.
"So if I can get a job that's paying 15, it'll help me where I'm able to pay my bills."
Strong is 60 years old.
"But you know what? I'm not trying to retire. I want to work. I want to work. But being 60, it's hard to find a job. Nobody wants to hire an older person."
Strong is philosophical.
"It's OK. I understand. Life goes on."