Effective January 1, 2026, the Act will impose new obligations on employers operating large warehouse distribution centers in Illinois where employees are held to a quota.

Jim Dey: “Politicians like to think in dramatic terms about the years they spend ignored by the general public. They use grandiose phrases like ‘wilderness years,’ and they really have been experienced by high-profile career politicians who made dramatic comebacks — Richard Nixon and Winston Churchill to name just two. But Illinois Republicans are not lost in the wilderness. They’re trapped in the political equivalent of the Gobi Desert, surrounded by mirages but nary an oasis.”

Rahm: “We’ve gone through five years where everybody is far too permissive about our culture, which is why everything is locked up at Walgreens and CVS…. I don’t want to hear another word about the locker room. I don’t want to hear another word about the bathroom. You better start focusing on the classroom.”