Latest Illinois Headlines
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Illinois Hospital to Pay $150,000 Over Disability Discrimination Lawsuit
Nov 29 2021 // The former owner of West Suburban Medical Center, an Oak Park, Illinois hospital will pay $150,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal...
Allstate Inks $232M Deal to Sell Most of Campus in Illinois
Nov 29 2021 // The Allstate Corp. announced it has reached an agreement to sell the property making up the majority of its campus in Northbrook, Illinois, to Dermody Properties for approximately $232 million. The sale is expected to...
Risk Strategies Acquires Illinois-Based Better Business Planning
Nov 1 2021 // Risk Strategies, a national specialty insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has acquired Better Business Planning, Inc., an insurance agency specializing in employee benefits solutions. Terms of the deal were not...
Illinois Engine Firm to Cut NOx Emissions, Pay $52M in Clear Air Act Settlement
Oct 28 2021 // Navistar Inc., an integrated manufacturer of trucks and diesel engines based in Lisle, Illinois, has agreed to mitigate at least 10,000 tons of oxides of nitrogen (NOx) emissions and pay a $52 million civil penalty in a...
Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires Illinois’ The VanDyke Group
Oct 27 2021 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Homer Glen, Illinois-based The VanDyke Group, Inc. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1984, The VanDyke Group offers employee benefits consulting and HR...
Tornadoes Cause Damage Along Missouri Illinois State Line
Oct 25 2021 // A large storm system spawned tornadoes along the Missouri Illinois state line late Sunday, Oct. 24, causing structural damage to residences and knocking out power. The National Weather Service reported an EF-0 tornado...
Ohio, Illinois Manufacturing Companies Sued for Disability Discrimination
Oct 22 2021 // Grief Inc., an international manufacturing company based in Delaware, Ohio, and American Flange, its wholly-owned subsidiary operating in the western suburbs of Chicago, violated federal law when they fired an employee and...
Illinois Construction Contractor Cited for Workplace Hazards; Fined $229.7K
Oct 15 2021 // For the sixth time in seven years, a federal workplace inspection has found a Roselle, Illinois, construction contractor putting workers at risk of serious injury or death by defying federal requirements to ensure the use...
Illinois Healthcare Center Fined $83.6K for Lack of Coronavirus Protections
Oct 14 2021 // Federal workplace safety officials say a Bloomingdale, Illinois, nursing facility failed to protect employees and temporary staff from possible coronavirus hazards a year after an employee died of the disease. OSHA...
Ford Sued for Pregnancy Discrimination at Illinois Plant
Sep 30 2021 // Ford Motor Company has been charged in a federal lawsuit with violating the law when it made a conditional offer of hire to a pregnant applicant but failed to hire her even though she was qualified and passed a company...
Illinois Research Laboratory to Pay $100K in Retaliation Lawsuit Settlement
Sep 29 2021 // A federal agency charged in a lawsuit that an Illinois-based research organization denied promotion to female engineer after she complained about sex-based discrimination. Fermi Research Alliance LLC (Fermi), a particle...
New Electronic Verification System in Illinois IDs 2,700 Uninsured Vehicles
Sep 29 2021 // The new electronic automobile insurance verification system in Illinois has identified more than 2,700 vehicles that did not have the state mandated minimum insurance coverage as of September 2021, a national...
Ex-Official Sent to Prison for Stealing $2M From Illinois City
Sep 23 2021 // A man who stole $2 million from Kankakee, Illinois, and a regional wastewater agency was sentenced to nine months in federal prison and two years of home confinement. Richard Simms, 74, acknowledged diverting money through...
Alera Group in Illinois Merges with Propel in Washington
Sep 9 2021 // Deerfield, Ill.-based Alera Group Inc. signed a definitive agreement to merge with Propel Insurance Agency headquartered in Tacoma, Wash. Propel’s property/casualty capabilities are expected to bolster Alera...
Hub Acquires Assets of Illinois’ McNellis Insurance
Sep 8 2021 // Chicago-based insurance brokerage and financial services firm, Hub International Limited (Hub), acquired the assets of McNellis & Company Inc. (McNellis Insurance), located in Evergreen Park, Illinois. Terms of the...
Illinois Gives Pie Approval to Acquire Western Select
Aug 25 2021 // Pie Carrier Holdings has received regulatory approval from the Illinois Department of Insurance to acquire Western Select Insurance Co. from a subsidiary of Premia Holdings Ltd. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The...
Lawsuit: Teens Sexually Assaulted in Illinois School Team Hazing
Aug 25 2021 // The parents of two teenage boys filed a federal lawsuit Monday alleging their sons were sexually assaulted in a hazing tradition by older players on their suburban Chicago, Ill., high school football team, and that three...
Illinois County Settles with Nurse Over COVID Request
Aug 24 2021 // A southern Illinois county agreed to pay a nurse $35,000 to settle her lawsuit alleging she was fired for refusing to tell local law enforcement which residents had tested positive for the coronavirus. The payment to nurse...
1 Mayor Sentenced, 1 Pleads Guilty in Illinois Town’s Insurance Procurement Case
Aug 18 2021 // On Aug. 13, the former mayor of a southwest Illinois town became the second area mayor to plead guilty to lying to federal agents investigating a case involving commission payments related to the placement of casualty loss...
Illinois Court Rules Hobby Lobby Broke Law in Transgender Employee Bathroom Case
Aug 16 2021 // Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. violated Illinois anti-bias law by denying a transgender woman employee access to the women’s bathroom, a state appellate court ruled in a case of first impression. Meggan Sommerville’s...
