Legislation significantly increasing regulations on Illinois businesses who use temporary workers, including mandating pay rates, is now law. Business groups say the law will have negative consequences.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker recently signed the Temp Worker Fairness and Safety Act into law. The measure restricts the practice of so-called “permatemping,” where workers are kept in temporary assignments for long periods of time. The act, which goes into effect immediately, requires temporary workers assigned to work for more than 90 days to be paid the same as a full-time employee.

As tens of thousands of music fans poured into Grant Park to party at Lollapalooza, the music festival itself saw fewer arrests and ambulance transports than in recent years, according to city officials.

The drop in ambulance transports and arrests came as the festival expanded its daily capacity from 100,000 attendees to 115,000 for the first time.

Federal prosecutors are expected to lift the curtain on another round of Springfield intrigue Wednesday, taking jurors back in time to 2018 as they begin to make their case against the onetime chief of staff to former Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan.

Opening statements in the perjury trial of Tim Mapes are set to begin Wednesday morning, following a two-day jury selection process that ended Tuesday with a panel of six men and six women.

A new state law will improve drug overdose education standards in K-12 schools to help students understand substance use and overdose trends.

The plan requires education on the history of drugs and health policy in Illinois and the United States, the impact of zero tolerance, and restorative justice practices.

Canal Street, a central artery to the third-busiest rail terminal in the U.S., is closing between Jackson and Adams streets for 18 months.

The move allowed Chicago this week to began a massive rehabilitation of four Canal Street viaducts next to Union Station. They “serve as both a major corridor into the Central Business District and as the roof over parts of Union Station,” city officials said.