Latest Illinois Headlines
All the headlines from our Illinois Topic Page, ordered by recency.
People Moves: Evans Jr. Elected President of Big I Illinois
Oct 28 2025 // Thomas Evans, Jr. of Biglow & Company, Inc, (Assured Partners) in Fox Lake, Illinois, has been elected and formally installed as the President of Big I Illinois at the organization’s annual convention in Peoria...
EPIC Acquires Illinois’ Price Insurance
Oct 28 2025 // EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants announced it is expanding its Chicago and Midwest footprint with the acquisition of Price Insurance, a fourth-generation, family-owned agency based in Lake Forest, Illinois. The...
AM Best Revises Outlooks to Stable for Members of Illinois’ Pekin Insurance Group
Oct 27 2025 // AM Best has revised the outlooks to stable from negative and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings (Long-Term ICR) of “a-” (Excellent) of The...
Trump Denies Disaster Declarations for Maryland, Vermont and Illinois
Oct 27 2025 // President Donald Trump approved major disaster declarations for Alaska, Nebraska, North Dakota and the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe last week, while denying requests from Vermont, Illinois and Maryland and leaving other...
Illinois Department of Insurance Asks Insurers for Policyholder Relief During Shutdown
Oct 24 2025 // The Illinois Department of Insurance is asking insurers to provide relief to policyholders impacted by the federal government shutdown and ensure that they do not lose insurance coverage, including a moratorium on...
Pritzker’s Illinois Wins 10th Rating Upgrade as Reserves Climb
Oct 24 2025 // Illinois, the worst-rated U.S. state, received a one-notch upgrade from Moody’s Ratings for its rising reserves and improving finances. Moody’s raised the state’s rating to A2, five steps above junk, from...
Illinois Sues State Farm for Refusal to Release Homeowners’ Insurance Data
Oct 15 2025 // The State of Illinois is suing State Farm for refusing to provide nationwide homeowners’ insurance data at the request of the Illinois Department of Insurance (IDOI). Attorney General Kwame Raoul filed the lawsuit on...
Illinois Sues to Block National Guard Deployment to Chicago Area
Oct 6 2025 // Illinois sued the Trump administration over its plan to deploy National Guard troops to the Chicago area, setting off a fresh legal battle over the president’s authority to use soldiers to respond to protests over...
Illinois Labor Union to Pay $110K Over Race Discrimination Lawsuit
Sep 22 2025 // Sunnybrook Union, a labor union representing teachers and educational support staff in the Sunnybrook School District in Lansing, Illinois, will pay $110,000 and provide other relief to settle a race discrimination case...
Illinois Man Admits to Starting Fire at a Gas Station
Sep 17 2025 // A Belleville, Illinois man appeared in federal court to admit to an arson charge for setting a fire in a Lebanon gas station bathroom. Carlos A. Rodriguez, 33, pleaded guilty to one count of arson of real property used in...
Relation Acquires Illinois’ Joseph M. Wiedemann & Sons
Sep 3 2025 // Relation Insurance Services announced their acquisition of the assets of Joseph M. Wiedemann & Sons, Inc. (JMWS). The transaction went into effect on August 1, 2025; terms of the transaction were not disclosed. JMWS, a...
Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiring in Illinois Underground Mine Fire Fraud
Sep 3 2025 // A Kentucky man entered a guilty plea to conspiring to defraud the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) in relation to an underground fire that occurred in the MC#1 Mine in Franklin County, Illinois, in August...
Illinois Hospital Sued for Religious and Disability Discrimination
Aug 7 2025 // Silver Cross Hospital, based in New Lenox, Illinois, violated federal law when it failed to provide a reasonable accommodation to employees who requested to be exempt from receiving the COVID-19 vaccine because of...
Illinois Staffing Agency to Pay $600K for Misclassifying Workers
Jul 23 2025 // Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced his office reached a $600,000 settlement with staffing solution agency Wonolo Inc., resolving allegations the company misclassified workers who were placed in temporary labor...
Illinois Chiropractor Sentenced to 20 Months in Prison for Insurance Fraud
Jul 21 2025 // An Illinois chiropractor was sentenced to 20 months in prison and ordered to repay more than $2.3 million, following convictions on multiple charges related to a scheme to defraud Medicare and twelve other insurance...
Survivors’ Lawyers Allege Decades of Systemic Abuse in Illinois Detention Facilities
Jul 18 2025 // Illinois has one of the nation’s worst problems with child sex abuse at juvenile detention centers, attorneys representing more than 900 survivors who have filed lawsuits said Wednesday. Dozens of complaints,...
Illinois Woman Sentenced to 15 Years for Insurance Fraud and Arson Scheme
Jul 17 2025 // A district judge this month sentenced sentenced Evette “Betty” Osuegbu, 62, of Granite City, Illinois to 15 years in federal prison for her role in a string of arsons and insurance fraud stretching from 2014 to...
State Farm Implements 27% Rate Increase for Illinois Homeowners
Jul 15 2025 // State Farm is implementing a significant rate hike for Illinois homeowners, citing more frequent severe weather events and rising home replacement costs that are driving up the cost and frequency of claims. The rate hike...
First Mid Insurance Group Expands Presence in Illinois With Acquisition
Jul 1 2025 // First Mid Insurance Group, a provider of comprehensive insurance solutions, announced its acquisition of certain assets from AAdvantage Insurance, including the former Waterman-Neely agency based in Chatham, Illinois. This...
Illinois Settles Wage-Fixing Case with Staffing Agency for $1M
Jul 1 2025 // Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced a settlement with Midway Staffing Inc. (Midway) that resolves allegations the temporary staffing agency entered into no-poach agreements and engaged in wage fixing with other...
