The study found that, even with the same college degree, students from low-income families earn less than those from middle ...

Can you afford rent in Illinois? What about Rockford, Peoria or Springfield? Here are the highlights of the 2025 "Out of ...

In several states, a renter must earn $20 or more per hour to afford apartments being leased at Fair Market Value. Nearly half of Americans don't make enough money to afford a one-bedroom rental.

The wage gap represents the unfair divergence between the pay of different groups of people, often by demographic characteristics. Overall, Asian workers have the highest median weekly income ...

Bartenders and other restaurant staff want Illinois to raise the $9-an-hour subminimum wage to $15 an hour for tipped employees and allow them to still keep their tips.

Outside of Chicago, Illinois tipped workers make $8.40 an hour compared to the state's regular minimum wage of $15. Roughly 200,000 tipped workers, 63% women and 40% people of color are impacted ...

Several new Illinois laws and tax increases take effect on July 1, 2025, including new rules for single-use plastics, a tipped minimum wage increase, and taxes on sports bets, vaping and gas.

Wage Gap Will Cost Each Black Woman $1 Million Over Time, Study Shows. On average, a Black woman makes $50,470 annually at the median compared to $79,950 for a White man.

J.B. Pritzker signed into law Tuesday the Dignity in Pay Act, which implements a 5-year plan to phase out subminimum wage authorizations in Illinois for people with disabilities.

Illinois is the 19th state to eliminate the subminimum wage for workers with disabilities. Organizations must phase in the full minimum wage by the end of 2029.