Hundreds of new laws take effect in 2025, impacting the minimum wage and how Illinoisans can get IDs, cancel their gym memberships, manage subscription renewals, clear their criminal records, use ...

Millions of workers across the country are starting the new year off with a raise. Here's which states are boosting their ...

Time to study up, Illinois. When the clock hits midnight on New Year’s Day, 293 new state laws will take effect.

The minimum wage in Illinois has increased to $15 an hour as of Jan. 1, completing a six-year transition period since the ...

Millions of workers across the country are starting the new year off with a raise. Here's which states are boosting their ...

At least 293 new laws went into effect in Illinois at the start of 2025. Here are some that every state resident should know.

Minimum wages increased in 21 states on Jan. 1, and more hikes are expected later in the year. The federal minimum wage remains at $7.25 an hour, a rate last adjusted in July 2009. However, states ...

Last year in a trio of cases, the Illinois Appellate Court reviewed how a circuit court should handle questions from a jury during deliberations: Edson v. Horwich¸ 2024 IL App (1st) 221877-U; Galich v ...

Chicagoans in 2025 will start paying more in certain taxes, fines and fees as part of balanced budget OK’d by Mayor Brandon ...

Beginning Jan. 1, 2025, all minimum wage employees in California - excluding fast food employers and certain healthcare ...

The move marks the seventh and final hike of the state's minimum wage, as part of legislation Gov. JB Pritzker signed in 2019 ...

The state's minimum wage is now $14.01, and the fees to register electric vehicles rose to $89. Roy Wood Jr. Turns Down Andy ...