Looking for a new job in the new year? An Illinois state law going into effect on Jan. 1, 2025, will soon give those scouring job boards more information on employment opportunities.

Now, prospective candidates will be able to see a pay scale and benefit information in job postings. Here’s what you need to know.

Does every employer have to post this information in job postings?

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan is charged with a racketeering conspiracy and other crimes spanning five alleged schemes. The charges and the details of the 10-year FBI investigation that led to his trial have been laid out for the public in several court documents

Here, the Chicago Sun-Times provides three of the most crucial records: Madigan’s indictment, the feds’ so-called “Santiago Proffer,” and the “Solis affidavit.”

By installing a new school board that will do his and the Chicago Teachers Union’s bidding, Mayor Brandon Johnson is hoping to turn up the heat on the Illinois General Assembly to increase funding to Chicago Public Schools.

But that mayoral power play — opposed by 41 of the City Council’s 50 members — could accomplish just the opposite.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) — A federal agency has joined the growing number of banks and credit unions opposing an Illinois law banning swipe fees. The Biden administration believes the plan is bad policy and conflicts with federal law.

Your favorite coffee shop or boutique only receives a portion of the money each time you swipe at a register due to interchange fees.

Mayor Brandon Johnson named seven new appointees to the Chicago Board of Education on Monday in the wake of the uproar caused by the announcement of the resignation of the entire board last week.

The appointments include: Margarita Ramirez, a former Chicago Public Schools teacher and the mother of Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa (35th), a Johnson loyalist; Olga Bautista, executive director of the Southeast Environmental Task Force who has advised Johnson’s administration on environmental policy; and Michilla “Kyla” Blaise, a parent and West Side community volunteer who had been a candidate for a seat on the elected school board but withdrew, and may be able to stay on as an appointed member after the Nov.

When Chicagoans elected a neophyte as mayor of Chicago, there was trepidation among those who didn’t vote for Brandon Johnson about what the future held. But many among them, this board included, hoped he would grow into the job after a little time in the office and act as if he represented all Chicagoans, not just those at the Chicago Teachers Union, his former employer.

Chicago Ald. Daniel Solis was a year into his stunning turn as an FBI mole when he allegedly called up the most powerful politician in Illinois and floated three little words that are virtually taboo in the state’s political lexicon.

Quid pro quo.

With the feds listening in, Solis told then-House Speaker Michael Madigan, their prime investigative target, that the developers of a West Loop apartment tower understood that in order to get approvals done in City Hall they had to hire Madigan’s private law firm to do their property tax appeals, according to federal prosecutors.

Officially it’s known as Case No. 22-cr-115, the United States v. Michael Madigan and Michael McClain.

Unofficially, it’s one of the biggest public corruption cases ever brought in Illinois, even in a state with a well-chronicled track record for blockbuster political trials.

Madigan, 82, the former speaker of the Illinois House and head of the state Democratic Party, and his longtime confidant, ex-lobbyist Michael McClain, 77, are charged in a 117-page, 23-count superseding indictment filed in October 2022 with racketeering conspiracy and a host of other crimes.

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In a narrow path for Republicans to gain any seats in the Illinois House this fall, they need candidates who can outperform the party in recent election cycles and “steal” a seat or two, as one GOP operative described it to us last week.

While visiting Peoria, Gov. JB Pritzker stood firm that ending the Illinois grocery tax was the right move for the state, despite concerns about the financial impact.

In February, city leaders said the end of the state’s 1% grocery tax could have negative consequences on Peoria and other municipalities in Illinois. The tax ends in 2026.