Nearly 300 new Illinois laws take effect in 2025
Dec 23, 2024 · Time to study up, Illinois. When the clock hits midnight on New Year’s Day, 293 new state laws will take effect. Those include some of the defining bills of the 2024 legislative …
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Illinois’ minimum wage to increase to $15 on Jan. 1, completing 6 …
Dec 26, 2024 · The minimum wage in Illinois will increase to $15 an hour on Jan. 1, completing a six-year transition period since the increase was approved in 2019. Beginning New Year’s …
Madigan co-defendant warned ComEd CEO not to ‘provoke a …
Oct 29, 2024 · Read more: 4 decades after rising to power and nearly 4 years since his fall, former Speaker Madigan goes to trial O’Neill, who spent nearly two decades at ComEd and its …
State lawmakers consider Tier 2 pension changes as new session ...
Dec 20, 2024 · A report earlier this year by the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability shed some light on what those proposals could cost. The April analysis of a …
Potawatomi land transfer clears General Assembly
Jan 9, 2025 · SPRINGFIELD – Nearly two centuries after losing its reservation in Illinois in a land sale that most people now concede was illegal, the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation could …
Bill aims to reduce state requirements for name changes
Dec 27, 2024 · The bill, House Bill 5164, would eliminate an existing requirement to publish name changes with a local newspaper.It would also reduce the state residency requirement of …
Pritzker’s budget office projects $3.2B deficit in early look at ...
Nov 4, 2024 · The Illinois Economic and Fiscal Policy Report published each November is often seen as a table-setter for the budgeting negotiations that will ramp up in earnest when …
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Key dates Aug. 7: First day to submit vote-by-mail application Sept. 26: Early voting begins and election authorities begin mailing ballots Oct. 8: Last day to register via the normal process …
Appeals court keeps Illinois’ assault weapons ban in place
Dec 9, 2024 · SPRINGFIELD – Illinois’ assault weapons ban will remain in place, at least until a federal appeals court hears full arguments challenging a lower court ruling that found the law …