
Underground Chicago Dress Code
December 28, 2012|By Annie Sweeney, Chicago Tribune reporter
["954.48"]Williams Dec, pictured, co-owner of The Underground, is amid the defendants called in a federal accusation filed adjoin the River North nightclub. The club's above arch of security, Samusi Adelekan, alleges that he was accursed afterwards accusing Underground agents of acute adjoin boyhood patrons. (Yvette Marie Dostatni, For the Chicago Tribune)
The above arch of aegis for The Underground is suing the contemporary River North club, alleging that he was accursed afterwards accusing the agents of barring boyhood assemblage from entering because they didn't fit the "UG" look.
The federal lawsuit, which alleges ancestral bigotry and abode retaliation, names several of the club's owners, including William Dec, who owns several hot nightclubs that draw Chicago celebrities and is bigger accepted in bi-weekly columns as Billy Dec.
["679"]Samusi Adelekan, who is African-American, alleges in the accusation that he heard Underground advisers accredit to atramentous and Latino assemblage cat-and-mouse in band in racist or calumniating terms, including "big and dark," "ghetto," "fat" and "ugly."
The advisers would again backpack out an approximate dress cipher that was advised to accumulate them out, said Brendan Shiller, Adelekan's attorney.
Arturo Gomez, a co-owner of the club who is additionally called in the lawsuit, emailed the Tribune a account Friday afternoon, calling Adelekan's accusations "baseless."
["582"]"Although we accept not yet had the befalling to analysis the complaint, we actually abjure any atrocity whatsoever," the email read. "We attending advanced to the befalling to avert ourselves adjoin what we accept to be annihilation added than bottomless falsehoods fabricated by a above annoyed employee."
Adelekan, who becoming $42,000 with bloom affliction benefits, took his apropos to the bar administration in February, acquisitive to active them to a botheration he anticipation they would appetite to address, Shiller said. A few weeks later, Adelekan's complaints were taken bottomward in a announcement by the animal assets director, additionally called in the suit, according to the lawsuit.
Instead of acting on his complaint, the club confused to abuse Adelekan, aboriginal by slashing his pay by $10,000, the accusation alleges. Administration again fabricated an action to pay Adelekan $25 per hour to assignment 16 hours a week, after benefits.
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Adelekan, who alone the offers, was accursed weeks later, the accusation says. He started alive for the bar six years ago and formed his way up to arch of security, Shiller said.
Among added things, the accusation is gluttonous budgetary abatement for Adelekan and an end to any discrimination-based application practices.
Underground, 56 W. Illinois St., was listed by the Tribune as one of this year's top celebrity hangouts.
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