All the headlines from our Illinois Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 14 2016 // Illinois is marking its first year of medical marijuana sales as more states voted on Election Day to allow legal use of the drug.Despite anecdotes of medical marijuana’s positive influence on patients, broader data...
Nov 7 2016 // Ohio’s addictions agency has issued an awareness alert after a company recalled a device used to deliver the drug overdose antidote naloxone.The Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services said the recall by...
Nov 4 2016 // Next week brings the anniversary of legal medical marijuana sales in Illinois and the program is growing steadily. Patients with state approval to buy marijuana now number about 12,000.The state released new monthly...
Nov 4 2016 // A Tennessee man has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison for a series of cyberattacks on businesses, universities and governments. Federal prosecutors in Chicago say 22-year-old Timothy Justen French of...
Oct 26 2016 // Facebook Inc.’s software knows your face almost as well as your mother does. And like mom, it isn’t asking your permission to do what it wants with old photos.While millions of internet users embrace the...
Oct 24 2016 // The family of a 14-year-old Illinois high school student who killed herself last year is suing the local school district, arguing that it neglected to follow protocols that could have prevented the teenager’s...
Oct 17 2016 // Firefighters in Rockford, Illinois, are alarmed by a rise in arsons this year and urging city residents to be wary and report any suspicious activity.According to the Rockford Register Star, 35 fires in the city were set...
Oct 14 2016 // Federal safety officials say that less than three weeks after being cited for exposing workers to unsafe trenches, investigators saw a Chicago plumbing contractor exposing the same four-man crew to trenching hazards as...
Oct 7 2016 // Federal safety regulators say 36 Illinois workers have died on the job since Jan. 1, 2016. That number represents an average of one life lost each week in the state.Since 2013, Illinois worker deaths have increased 28...
Oct 6 2016 // The Plexus Groupe LLC, a privately held national insurance brokerage and risk management consultancy headquartered in Deer Park, Illinois, has acquired Carol Stream, Ill.-based Ingensa Insurance Services, a diversified...
Sep 26 2016 // When Dennis Roberts’ car insurance started getting a bit too expensive, he did what a lot of consumers do and shopped around.Then he picked a new company and switched both his home and auto coverage, never expecting...
Sep 20 2016 // Some customers of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. claim the company conspired to help elect an Illinois Supreme Court candidate so he could vote to throw out a $1 billion award against the company. Now they will...
Sep 15 2016 // Several Midwest states report significant drops in the number of residents without health insurance.New data shows nearly 200,000 Wisconsin residents gained some form of health insurance between 2013 and 2015. In Illinois,...
Sep 12 2016 // The National Weather Service is confirming that at least four tornadoes swept through east-central Illinois.Personnel from the weather service’s Lincoln office are surveying damage Saturday in Champaign and...
Sep 12 2016 // Confie, a national provider of personal and commercial lines insurance, has acquired the BMR Agency LLC dba First Stop Insurance in Washington Park, Ill. First Stop Insurance specializes in non-standard auto insurance. The...
Sep 6 2016 // Dan McMullen is an insurance agent in Ferguson, Mo. His Solo Insurance office is on West Florissant Avenue, the epicenter of the trouble two years ago. The building next to his office burned into ruins.There aren’t...
Sep 6 2016 // Missouri insurance regulators have once again refused to renew the non-resident producer license of the owner of an Illinois managing general agency that has been able to continue operations despite having his license...
Sep 1 2016 // Bell Insurance Solutions in Illinois recently joined Valley Insurance Agency Alliance. Bell Insurance Solutions specializes in business, life, home and auto insurance. The firm was founded this year by owner J.R....
Aug 29 2016 // Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner has signed legislation requiring insurance companies to locate beneficiaries of unclaimed life insurance policies and pay them money they’re owed.The Republican said Friday the state also...
Aug 26 2016 // Dan McMullen is an insurance agent in Ferguson, Mo. His Solo Insurance office is on West Florissant Avenue, the epicenter of the trouble two years ago. The building next to his office burned into ruins.There aren’t...