CAPITOL: The Illinois State Capitol is pictured in Springfield. Time to study up, Illinois. When the clock hits midnight on New Year’s Day, 293 new state laws will take effect. Those include some of the defining bills of the 2024 legislative session and others that will change how people get IDs,

More than 300 new laws are taking effect in Illinois in the New Year. They range from increasing the minimum age to making it easier to cancel gym memberships. Here’s a look at a few of the laws impacting Illinois residents going into effect.

Hundreds of new laws take effect in 2025, impacting the minimum wage and how Illinoisans can get IDs, cancel their gym memberships, manage subscription renewals, clear their criminal records, use Artificial Intelligence and more.

Just days away from the new calendar year, Missouri and Illinois are preparing for several new laws to take effect.

In the wake of another Illinois state trooper's death, officials continue to attempt to strengthen the state’s Move Over law, or Scott’s Law. Trooper Clay Carns was killed the day before Christmas Eve when a vehicle struck him while he was removing debris from I-55 in Will County.