Evanston kicked off 2025 with the enforcement of new city ordinances, state laws and legal amendments, including the 294 ...

Time to study up, Illinois. As of New Year’s Day, 293 new state laws have taken effect. Those include some of the defining ...

As asylum seekers navigate the day labor sector, labor organizations are stepping in to help them advocate for their rights.

Illinois has hundreds of new laws in 2025, and wgntv.com has more information you need to know.

Generating Everlit Embed With the calendar’s turn to 2025, a number of new laws and changes have taken effect, both across ...

Illinois ranked near the bottom of the nation when it comes to wages for entry-level workers in 2024, according to ...

Workers across 21 states welcomed the new year by seeing their hourly minimum wages rise. The federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, a rate that has remained unchanged since July 2009. During his ...

Once ranked tops in the country for entry level wage growth over inflation, in 1935, Illinois has fallen to No. 39 compared ...

Since 2009, when the minimum wage was last raised, prices have increased around 40%. High costs are top of mind and Johnson ...

A South Chicago couple was given Cook County's first marriage certificate of 2025, hundreds braved frigid temperatures for a ...

Illinois minimum wage is increasing on January, 1 st. Workers on hourly pay will see roughly a dollar increase, going from ...

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