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Illinois Contractor Faces $287K Fine for Safety Violations

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...

Illinois Contractor Cited for Exposing Workers to Fall Hazards

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...

Big I Illinois Announces Annual Awards

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...

Illinois Manufacturer to Pay $1.3M After Plant Explosion

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...

Teen Concedes Cutting Off Tanker in Crash That Killed 5 in Illinois

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...

Xceedance Acquires Illinois’ Millennium Information Services

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...

Hundreds Sue Over Alleged Sexual Abuse at Illinois Juvenile Detention Centers

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...

Collision Between Jail Transport Van and Vehicle Injures 19 in Illinois

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...

Boating Accident Claims Lives of 2 Men in Illinois Lake; Girl Survives

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...

Illinois Company Fined $138K for Selling Unregistered Pesticide Product

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...

Illinois City Ordered to Pay $22M in Wrongful Conviction Settlement

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...

EEOC Sues Illinois Contractor for Disability Discrimination

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...

Marsh McLennan Agency Completes Acquisition of Illinois’ The Horton Group

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...

Illinois Legislature Clarifies Damages Under BIPA to Avoid ‘Annihilative Liability’

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...

Illinois Contractor Faces $354K in Fines for Exposing Workers to Fall Hazards

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...

Giant Sinkhole Swallows Center of Illinois Soccer Field

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...

Illinois Contractor Faces $264K Fine for Exposing Workers to Deadly Fall Hazards

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...

DOXA Acquires Illinois MGA CPH Insurance

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...

Dozens More Former Youth Inmates Sue Over Alleged Sexual Abuse at Illinois Detention Centers

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...

US Farmers Opt for Soy to Limit Losses as All Crop Prices Slump

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...