US state regulation
Illinois
Every state-level regulation PlainRegWatch tracks for Illinois - across data privacy, AI, food chemical bans, right to repair and worker protection, with status, effective dates and official sources.
- Tracker score
- 62/100 Top 10%
- Regulations tracked
- 9 Top 10%
- Enacted into law
- 8
- Categories regulated
- 3/5
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Dense archive shelf. 9 tracked rows put Illinois in the densest third of the state corpus (#2 of 51 by volume).
The verdict
Illinois is a dense, high-tracker archive: 9 tracked rows and 62/100, with 8 enacted across 3 of 5 policy areas, led by Employment & Worker Protection.
- 62/100
- tracker (ceiling tercile)
- 9
- tracked rows (dense tercile)
- 8
- enacted into law
- Employment & Worker Protection
- WORKER-LED lead area
Tracker score is a 0–100 portal-derived measure: weighted counts of records marked enacted across five covered categories, normalized to the top result, not enforcement strength, legal burden, or an official state rating.
State archive posture brief
Illinois legislative archive posture
Entity-varying stamps from Illinois's rows in the five-category PlainRegWatch archive, volume band, enactment share, tracker score, and corpus rank, not a clone nationwide scaffold.
- 9 Tracked rows in archive
- 8 Enacted into law 89% share
- 1 Pending bills tracked
- 62/100 Portal tracker score
- #2 Of 51 by volume
- #5 Of 51 by tracker score
- New Nearest volume peer 8 rows
- 3 Of 5 policy areas Employment & Worker Protection
Enacted-volume neighbourhood
Enacted statute count among nearest archive-volume peers (snapshot 2026-07-16).
State context
Illinois's archive volume vs the tracked state corpus
Dense archive shelf: Illinois is above the peer average for tracked volume and above the peer average for tracker score. Highlighted point = this state.
PlainRegWatch methodology: tracker score is a normalized enacted-count index, not legal burden. Placement method.
Illinois enactments by year
Enacted regulations tracked in PlainRegWatch since 2015 · peak 4 in 2019
Policy coverage
Illinois enacted mix · WORKER-LED
Worker-protection-led shelf: each card is live from Illinois's rows (enacted counts only), with links into the national category hubs.
Illinois regulatory footprint index
A single 0-100 index combining Illinois's standing on 3 of 3 tracked measures: enacted-law volume, portal tracker strictness, and tracked-category breadth. This describes how extensive Illinois's tracked regulatory footprint is, not a judgment of good or bad governance. A missing measure would drop out and redistribute its weight rather than deflating the index.
95/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Enacted volume
- A 9 tracked
98th percentile nationwide
- Tracker strictness
- A 62/100
94th percentile nationwide
- Category breadth
- A 3 categories
90th percentile nationwide
Benchmarked live against every state reporting each measure in the current portal tracker. Not a legal, compliance, or governance-quality score; PlainRegWatch's own weighting (enacted volume 40%, tracker strictness 35%, category breadth 25%).
🤖 AI Regulation
AI Video Interview Act
HB 2557 Effective: 2020-01-01First law requiring AI disclosure in video interviews.
Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA)
SB 2400 Effective: 2008-10-03Pioneering biometric privacy with private right of action. Major AI litigation driver.
Illinois Human Rights Act — AI Amendment
HB 3773 Effective: 2026-01-01Prohibits discriminatory AI in employment decisions.
💼 Employment & Worker Protection
Chicago Fair Workweek Ordinance
MCC 10-60 Effective: 2020-07-01Chicago requires 10-day advance scheduling for covered workers. Premium pay for late notice changes.
Illinois Equal Pay Act — Salary History Amendment
SB 1730 Effective: 2019-09-29Illinois prohibits salary history inquiries and wage screening under Equal Pay Act amendment.
Illinois Freedom to Work Act (Non-Compete)
SB 672 Effective: 2022-01-01Illinois bans non-competes for workers earning under $75,000/year (indexed). Non-solicitation ban for under $45,000/year.
Illinois Minimum Wage Law
820 ILCS 105 Effective: 2025-01-01Illinois minimum wage $15.00/hr (2025). Chicago and Cook County set higher rates. Tipped workers: $9.00/hr (60% of min wage).
Illinois Pay Transparency Act
HB 3129 Effective: 2025-01-01Pay scale in postings (15+). Covers remote positions.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Read with Illinois
Nearest archive-volume peers and tracker-score poles for Illinois (DENSE · MID · ACTIVE), replacing the old fixed Related strip.
DENSE MID ACTIVE WORKER-LED
New York · DENSE
New York tracks 8 rows (fewer by 1 than Illinois); tracker stamp MID vs MID.
Oregon · DENSE
Oregon tracks 8 rows (fewer by 1 than Illinois); tracker stamp MID vs MID.
Colorado · DENSE
Colorado tracks 8 rows (fewer by 1 than Illinois); tracker stamp CEILING vs MID.
Washington · DENSE
Washington tracks 7 rows (fewer by 2 than Illinois); tracker stamp MID vs MID.
Employment & Worker Protection hub · WORKER-LED
Illinois's lead category is Employment & Worker Protection (5 enacted) under the WORKER-LED archive stamp.
Regulations by category in Illinois
Source: State regulatory filings (IAPP / MultiState aggregation) Illinois state-rule registry · 2024 Illinois: 9 tracked · 8 enacted · tracker 62/100 (DENSE/MID). Status reflects the latest legislative tracker snapshot.
Counts and tracker score are Illinois's rows in the curated five-category archive · as of July 2026.