With the beginning of a new year comes the inauguration of more than 100 new laws in Illinois. The Statehouse is often out of sight and out of mind for a lot of people, but the laws it signs are of equal...

The start of a new year entails more than kisses at midnight or the popping of champagne—it also marks the induction of newly passed laws. On Jan. 1, 220 new Illinois state laws went into effect. These...