New Illinois laws for 2025 include minimum wage bump, AI protections – Chicago Tribune

And the Chicago Bears and the White Sox could still be looking for public money to build new stadiums.
All of these issues could take months to hash out. Here’s a look at some of the laws that become real with the new year.
The statewide minimum wage will increase to $15 an hour for workers 18 and older under the final phase of a measure signed by Gov. JB Pritzker in 2019, when the minimum hourly wage was $8.25. Hourly pay has gone up in steps every year since then. In Cook County, the […]
New Illinois laws for 2025 include minimum wage bump, AI protections – Chicago Tribune