SPRINGFIELD — While criminal justice reform and efforts to end cash bail have received widespread attention, it is by no means the only new law that will take effect when the calendar turns over to 2023.
For most people who work a minimum wage job, the new year will bring a pay raise to $13 per hour, a $1 increase over the current wage. That’s the result of a law Gov. JB Pritzker signed in 2019, his first major legislative victory after being sworn into office a month earlier. The law will eventually raise the wage to $15 an hour on Jan. 1, 2025.
