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Restaurant, Bar Staff Prepare To File For Unemployment Again
"It was basically sadness," waiter Shaun Wilson said.
CHICAGO (CBS) — Illinois is one of only a handful of states reporting a jump in jobless claims with a 13 percent increase from the week before. Nearly 2 million people have filed for unemployment in Illinois since early March, and there is no doubt that servers and bar staff are going to add to those numbers as COVID-19 indoor dining bans take effect. For some of them it won’t be the first time they have been laid off this year.
“It was basically sadness,” waiter Shaun Wilson said, knowing that waiting tables at Soul Shack in Chicago’s Hyde Park will not be happening starting Friday. “I took satisfaction. I took a certain amount of pride in being able to provide for my kids, and now that’s in question.”
