Illinois Senate backs $15 hourly minimum wage within 6 years
“The Illinois Senate voted Thursday to hike the statewide minimum wage to $15 an hour within six years, quickly advancing a top campaign promise of the newly elected Democratic governor in a major industrial state that hasn’t raised the pay floor in nearly a decade. Gov. J.B. Pritzker, who in his third week in office has reveled in reversing four years of his Republican predecessor’s conservative policies , lauded the Senate’s 39-18 party-line action to gradually raise the pay for low-income workers.”