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Nearly 300 new Illinois laws go into effect this week. Here are some of the most notable.
There are close to 300 new Illinois or Chicago-area laws going into effect with the arrival of the new year. Here are the 2025 laws that you should keep on your radar.
Nearly 300 new laws take effect in Illinois with the new year. Here are some highlights
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.
New Illinois laws for 2025: A look at what's changing this New Year
Nearly 300 new laws will take effect in 2025, including bills pertaining to driver's licenses, health insurance and more.
Some new Illinois laws to look out for in 2025
Forecasters are keeping an eye on a possible winter storm just days into 2025 that they believe could bring the first “significant” snowfall to our area. Kate Beckinsale posted a video on Instagram in which she detailed a handful of instances where she has suffered harassment and abuse on various sets.
New year brings hundreds of new laws to Illinois books: Here's what you need to know
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 Artificial Intelligence and more.

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New Illinois laws for 2025 include minimum wage bump, artificial intelligence protections
The New Year brings new laws in Illinois including a minimum wage bump and measures aimed at artificial intelligence.
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Illinois DNR is investigating a series of waterfowl deaths across the state
The Illinois Department of Natural Resources says it is monitoring a large number of waterfowl deaths at several places in the state.
Chicago weather: ‘Clipper system' to bring 1-2 inches of snow to parts of Northern Illinois
Snow was in the Chicago area forecast Thursday as a clipper storm system moves in from west to east, the NBC 5 Storm Team ...
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Illinois moves forward with progressive reform policies
Illinois has hundreds of bills taking effect on Jan. 1, 2025, and several are related to law enforcement and the justice ...
Illinois hourly workers will get another pay bump in 2025
The move marks the seventh and final hike of the state's minimum wage, as part of legislation Gov. JB Pritzker signed in 2019 ...