Committee OKs raising state's minimum wage to $11 by 2019

In one of the first legislative actions of the new session, an Illinois Senate committee Wednesday morning approved a bill to gradually raise the state minimum wage from the current $8.25 an hour to $11 an hour on July 1, 2019. The 11-5 party-line vote in the Senate Executive Committee came hours before Gov. Bruce Rauner's State of the State message, where he is expected to urge lawmakers to make the state more business-friendly.



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