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 session and others that will change how people get IDs, evaluate job postings and even cancel gym memberships.

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 different bill found it would cost the state $5 billion in total through fiscal year 2045 to tie the salary cap to the Social Security wage base and improve the rate of the annual cost of living adjustment.

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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 lawmakers return to the Capitol for the legislative year that begins each January.. GOMB projects that revenues will remain flat at roughly $53.4 billion for the …

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 unconstitutional.

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 soon get its land back. In the final hours of a lame duck session Tuesday, the Illinois House gave final approval to a bill ...

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 parent company Exelon, described the days and weeks leading up to the critical vote as a …

Nov 21, 2024 · SPRINGFIELD – Criminal convictions of actor Jussie Smollett will be dismissed, and a defamation lawsuit against the Chicago Sun-Times will be allowed to continue, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled in a slate of opinions Thursday.

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 Oct. 9: Grace period registration begins (new in-person registrants must vote when they register) Oct. 20: Online voter registration closes Oct. 31: Last day to request vote-by-mail ballot

Dec 26, 2024 · The final increase, ending a six-year ramp which began with the minimum wage rising from $8.25 to $9.25 on Jan. 1, 2020, puts a bow on Gov. JB Pritzker’s first major legislative victory.