Beginning in 2022, businesses with 100 or more employees will need to provide information like employees' race, ethnicity, gender, and salary/hourly wage. This law is an initiative of the Illinois Legislative Black Caucus and was originally passed as part of the Equity Pillar legislation in January.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Just keep layering more regulation on top of businesses and see what happens.