All the headlines from our Illinois Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 9 2025 // WalkerHughes Insurance, a privately held, founder-led retail insurance brokerage, announced its expansion into Illinois with the acquisition of Benhoff Insurance Agency, well-established personal lines brokerage based in...
Dec 2 2025 // Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced a $120 million settlement with Monsanto Company (Monsanto) and affiliates Solutia Inc. and Pharmacia LLC over the environmental and health effects of Monsanto’s...
Nov 26 2025 // Anthony Roofing Tecta America LLC and Tecta America Corporation, roofing services providers in Illinois and nationwide, violated federal law when they subjected African American and female employees of their Aurora,...
Nov 21 2025 // Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc. announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Commodity & Ingredient Hedging (“CIH”), a leading provider of risk management solutions for the agricultural and...
Nov 17 2025 // AM Best has revised the outlooks to stable from positive and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of A (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings (Long-Term ICRs) of “a+” (Excellent) for the...
Nov 3 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...