Minimum Wage Bill Increases Wages Gradually Over Next Five Years Posted on: 5 March 2019 By: David J. Braun With his signature on February 19, 2019, Governor Pritzker made a new minimum wage bill, (known as the "Lifting Up Illinois Working Families Act,") Public Act 101-1, law.Tags: Minimum WageIllinois LawIllinois Labor LawIllinois Education LawSchool LawEmployment Law