A college student, councilmember and drag queen walk into a bar.
Waiting tables like theirs was Loyola University Chicago senior Daniel Jaén, who juggled a full course load and job at Chili’s Evanston on the corner of Maple Avenue and Clark Street, just blocks away from Northwestern’s campus.
The restaurant stored each table’s utensils in paper sleeves, printed with Chili’s-themed drawings. During shifts, some workers joked about getting one of these images — a lime — tattooed. Days after Chili’s Evanston shuttered its doors in December, Jaén and three coworkers did…