minimum wage

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois General Assembly makes what has become its weekly return to Springfield with a state budget still unresolved and only eight days before it's due. The Senate will meet as a body on Tuesday to discuss increasing the minimum wage and paid sick-leave provisions...

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — An exotic dancer from the Peoria area has filed a federal lawsuit against the strip club where she works claiming the business is violating state and federal labor laws because it doesn't pay her a minimum wage. Aleigha Woods filed the lawsuit last week in U...

John Gregory -- Illinois Radio Network U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) is backing a bill to raise the federal minimum wage to $12 by 2020 -- which is more ambitious than Gov. Bruce Rauner's proposal. Durbin says Republican positions on raising the minimum wage show how "out of touch some elected officials are with the reality of life...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois Senate has approved a plan to raise the minimum wage from $8.25 to $11 per hour by 2019. The Democratic-controlled chamber voted 35-18 on Thursday to advance the proposal. It now moves to the Illinois House, where its passage is less certain...

Proponents of a minimum wage hike in Illinois received bad news last night. House Speaker Michael Madigan’s spokesman says the Speaker does not plan to call a vote on a proposed increase in this legislative session. The decision likely means the wage hike issue will be put on hold until next year...

House Speaker Michael Madigan's spokesman says Madigan does not plan to call a vote on a proposed increase in Illinois' minimum wage this legislative session. Spokesman Steve Brown said Tuesday the Chicago Democrat felt "complications of the last few days made it unlikely a bill could be passed during this General Assembly...

John Gregory -- Illinois Radio Network A proposed minimum wage increase in Chicago may sour the deal for a statewide raise, according to business groups. While a bill to raise the wage to $10 per hour next July hasn’t yet made it out of the Illinois Senate, the Chicago City Council is set to vote on increasing the city’s wage to $13 per hour...

Jim Anderson -- Illinois Radio Network The results of advisory referenda will prompt legislation. The minimum wage question -- $10 an hour by Jan. 1 – got 66 percent “yes” votes.  Gov. Pat Quinn says he’ll push lawmakers to do that before the year is out...

Jim Anderson -- Illinois Radio Network Illinois voters will see a question on the ballot in November on whether to raise the minimum wage. The question is whether the minimum wage should be $10 an hour for workers age 18 and older, starting in 2015...

Former Congressman Bobby Schilling isn't a fan of the President's proposal to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour.  Joining "Riley & Scot" Wednesday morning, he said a move like that would only result in fewer jobs available for those just starting out in the labor market: One of the things that he doesn't talk about is the fact that the majority of these minimum wage jobs that