The "Big Box Ordinance"

The Chicago Sun-Times today proudly touted that a new Target store will not be built on the South Side as proof that the Big Box Ordinance is just wrong for the city [link].

Well, isn't keeping these stores out of Chicago sort of the point of the ordinance?

The Big Box Ordinance was not intended to create a living wage for service workers, it was intended to help local business owners by keeping the big chains like WalMart out of Chicago. Target deciding not to build a store in Chicago is exactly the effect of the ordinance that we should hope for. If we want to create a living wage in Chicago, we can't limit legislation to companies that can just as easily go somewhere else.