All the headlines from our Illinois Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 27 2021 // A contractor working at a Caterpillar Inc. foundry in central Illinois fell to his death when he apparently stepped off a ladder at the plant, authorities said.The Peoria County coroner said Scott M. Adams, 50, of East...
Dec 15 2021 // A 61-year-old worker died after becoming trapped in machinery at a suburban Chicago steel polishing factory, authorities said Friday.Raymondo Escobar’s cause of death was due to “asphyxia due to machinery...
Dec 15 2021 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has Chicago-based Tave Risk Management, LLC. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 2000, Tave Risk Management, LLC is a retail property/casualty broker and risk advisory firm...
Dec 14 2021 // EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. — The U.S. workplace safety watchdog is investigating the circumstances around the collapse during Friday night’s storm of an Amazon.com Inc building in Illinois in which six workers died, an...
Dec 10 2021 // Volkswagen AG’s U.S. unit will pay $3.5 million to resolve a lawsuit by the state of Illinois against the German automaker for updates of emissions software arising from the 2015 diesel cheating scandal.Last month,...
Dec 1 2021 // The family of two close friends from suburban Chicago who were killed at the Astroworld concert in Houston this month have filed wrongful death lawsuits against rapper Travis Scott, the Live Nation entertainment company...
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...
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 close...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...