Minimum Wage Increase

Currently, Chicago’s minimum wage is $15 an hour for employers that have 21 or more employees and $14 an hour for smaller businesses.

The minimum wage could increase to $15 per hour for about 270 Detroit municipal employees under a plan expected to be presented in the coming weeks to the City Council.

Chicago’s minimum wage is going up Thursday.

Each year, new laws take effect in Illinois on multiple dates, including July 1. What’s changing? Jen DeSalvo a breakdown of some of the biggest measures you should know.

Every year in Illinois, several new laws passed in the previous legislative session take effect on Jan. 1. While typically this might include hundreds of new measures, as it did at the beginning of 2020, this year was markedly different.