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

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

But a new study suggests that the American dream is still more elusive for some people in Illinois than for others, and that ...

Until last year, the Illinois gender wage gap was consistently wider than the U.S. average — which has barely budged in the past two decades. The state’s new law aligns with a growing national ...

Money Illinois hourly workers will get another pay bump in 2025 The move marks the seventh and final hike of the state’s minimum wage, as part of legislation Gov. JB Pritzker signed in 2019.

Peoria takes the No. 1 spot on the top midsize metros for construction workers, according to the study, coming in with a cost-adjusted yearly wage of $86,056. Peoria's unadjusted median wage for ...

The news is not all bad: Wages rose for all workers last year, but faster for men. And while the gender wage gap rose, it’s on par with what it was in 2019 before the pandemic hit.

The study analyzes U.S. Census Bureau data and found tipped wage hikes are shown to increase, rather than decrease, the hourly wage gaps between minority tipped employees and white tipped employees.