All the headlines from our Illinois Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 13 2024 // Federal inspectors have cited 595 Construction LLC – a Crystal Lake, Illinois contractor with a history of exposing employees to fall hazards – for eight safety violations after finding employees framing a...
Nov 6 2024 // Federal inspectors have cited 595 Construction LLC – a Crystal Lake, Illinois contractor with a history of exposing employees to fall hazards – for eight safety violations after finding employees framing a...
Oct 25 2024 // Big I Illinois, an association representing Trusted Choice® independent insurance agents throughout the state, presented awards to top agents and agencies during the association’s annual convention and 125th...
Oct 8 2024 // Chemical products manufacturer AB Specialty Silicones LLC will pay $1.3 million in penalties after an explosion and fire at its Waukegan, Illinois plant in May 2019 claimed the lives of four workers.The U.S. Department of...
Oct 7 2024 // SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A federal report on a tanker-truck crash a year ago in central Illinois that spilled a toxic chemical and killed five people includes an interview with a 17-year-old Ohio girl who concedes that...
Sep 26 2024 // Xceedance announced it has acquired Millennium Information Services, a property inspection and data analytics company based in Chicago. With the acquisition, the Xceedance Americas team adds nearly 200 team members and a...
Sep 25 2024 // CHICAGO (AP) — More than 200 men and women were sexually abused as children while in custody at juvenile detention centers in Illinois, according to lawsuits filed Monday, the latest in a string of complaints alleging...
Sep 6 2024 // ROUND LAKE, Ill. (AP) — Nineteen people have been hurt after a jail transport van collided Wednesday with another vehicle and struck a pole in northeastern Illinois.Sixteen prisoners were in the van that was traveling to...
Aug 21 2024 // MARSEILLES, Ill. (AP) — Two Indiana men have died and a 7-year-old girl has been found safe after the boat they were fishing from was found capsized on an eastern Illinois lake.Police responded Sunday to a 911 call at...
Aug 12 2024 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a settlement with Amerikal Products Corp. of Waukegan, Illinois, for allegedly selling and distributing an unregistered pesticide product in violation of the Federal...
Aug 8 2024 // The city of Naperville must pay $22.5 million in damages for the wrongful conviction of a man accused of arson and murder.A federal jury awarded the damages to William Amor’s estate, the Chicago Tribune reported...
Aug 7 2024 // Alto Ingredients, Inc., a manufacturer of industrial and food-grade, corn-based alcohols, violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) when it terminated an electrician from its campus in Pekin, Illinois, because of...
Aug 2 2024 // Marsh McLennan Agency, a business of Marsh and a leading provider of business insurance, employee health & benefits, retirement & wealth, and private client insurance solutions across North America, today announced...
Jul 26 2024 // A bill (SB2979) amending Illinois’ Biometric Information and Privacy Act (“BIPA”), passed by both houses of the legislature on May 16 and now on Governor J.B. Pritzker’s desk, effectively overturns...
Jul 15 2024 // Federal workplace safety inspectors have cited an Illinois construction contractor for again exposing employees to falls from elevation — the industry’s leading cause of injury and death — as they did residential...
Jul 3 2024 // ALTON, Ill. (AP) — A giant sinkhole has swallowed the center of a soccer complex that was built over an operating limestone mine in southern Illinois, taking down a large light pole and leaving a gaping chasm where...
Jun 17 2024 // Federal workplace safety inspectors found an Illinois construction contractor — cited seven times since 2020 — again exposing employees doing framing work to the risk of deadly falls from elevation at two homes under...
Jun 11 2024 // DOXA Insurance announced the acquisition of CPH Insurance, a Chicago-based MGA providing professional liability products for mental health, allied health and healthcare professionals. Founded in 2000 by founder and...
Jun 5 2024 // Dozens more former youth inmates filed lawsuits seeking millions of dollars in damages for sexual abuse they allegedly endured at Illinois detention centers dating back to the late 1990s.Thirteen women and 95 men filed two...
Jun 4 2024 // Mark Tuttle planted more soy and less corn on his northern Illinois farm this spring as prices for both crops hover near three-year lows and soybeans’ lower production costs offered him the best chance of turning a...