Latest Illinois Headlines
All the headlines from our Illinois Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Declarations
Oct 6 2008 // Federal vs. state—AIG “This argument is fundamentally flawed because it is based on a totally inaccurate assumption of facts. First and foremost, AIG is not an insurance company; it is a federally-regulated holding...
Brooke Corp. Faces Lawsuits by Illinois and New York Banks
Oct 3 2008 // Overland Park, Kansas-based Brooke Corp. faces a lawsuit by a bank that is seeking $13 million plus interest and costs for breach of contract. The suit was filed the last week in September 2008 in federal court in Illinois...
Earthquake-Damaged School Gym in Illinois Causing Controversy
Oct 1 2008 // An earthquake that shook much of the Midwest months ago is giving a Metro East, Ill. school district some financial aftershocks. Officials in East Alton say the April quake caused as much as $1.2 million in damage to the...
Illinois Deer-Vehicle Collisions Increase 25% in Two Year Period
Sep 26 2008 // Each year, deer-vehicle crashes cause more than 200 deaths and tens of thousands of injuries, while racking up $1.1 billion in property damages. Based upon Erie Insurance’s decade of deer-vehicle collision data, we...
Flood Waters Still HIgh In Some Illinois Counties Declared Disaster Areas
Sep 25 2008 // Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has declared three more Illinois counties state disaster areas after severe flooding from September 13 and 14 as the aftermath Hurricane Ike hit the Midwest. The governor’s office...
Illinois Senate Panel Okays 3rd Attempt at Autism Coverage
Sep 24 2008 // An Illinois Senate committee wants to require insurance companies to cover expanded treatment for autism. It’s the Senate’s third attempt this year to approve the measure, which would require insurers to cover...
Illinois Mayor Charged with Insurance Fraud Steps Down
Sep 22 2008 // Niles, Ill.’s long-time mayor, Nicholas Blase, is stepping down after 47 years. In a statement on the village Web site, Blase, 80, said his retirement was effective Sept. 1. The Village Board is expected to appoint...
Hurricane Ike: We’re All Connected
Sep 22 2008 // When it was all over, six people were dead, expressways remained flooded in every direction, 1,000 people were evacuated, schools closed and Illinois Gov. Rod Blagoevich had declared seven counties in Illinois as emergency...
Missouri Workers Honored for Saving Illinois Men During Flood
Sep 18 2008 // Two Missouri Department of Transportation workers are being honored for their efforts to save two Illinoisans during a flash flood. Keith Golian and Thomas Ragland recently received the department’s Meritorious...
Death Toll Rises to 6 in Midwest; 7 Counties Declared Emergency Areas
Sep 16 2008 // Though some flood waters are receding and some residents in the Chicago area able to go home to begin the clean-up, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed on Tuesday, Sept.16, that six people had died in flood...
Ike’s Wrath Hits Midwest; 1,000 Homeowners Evacuated, Roads Closed
Sep 15 2008 // Midwest residents felt the wrath of Hurricane Ike this weekend as rains made their way up the corridor of the country pelting Illinois and Indiana spurring the Illinois governor to call for a state of emergency for Cook...
Illinois Governor Appoints Moreland to Workers’ Comp Advisory Board
Sep 8 2008 // Kimberly Moreland, vice president of Rising Medical Solutions, a medical-financial organization, was named one of nine governor-appointed seats on the State of Illinois Workers’ Compensation Medical Fee Advisory...
Business Moves
Sep 1 2008 // Aon Corporation, Benfield Group Chicago-based Aon Corporation and UK-based broker Benfield Group Limited reached agreement for Aon to acquire Benfield for £3.50 ($6.55) per share in cash and assume £91 million ($170...
American Slain in Beijing Was Board Chairman of Illinois Insurance Company
Sep 1 2008 // An American stabbed to death in China in an attack that also critically injured his wife had ties to the Metro East, Ill. Sixty-two-year-old Todd Bachman was the board chairman at Edwardsville-based Hortica. That company...
It Figures
Sep 1 2008 // $15 Million Iowa officials estimate it will cost $15 million to bring the state up to speed on flood plain maps. Only 50 of Iowa’s 99 counties have complete maps that meet federal standards. The outdated or...
Northern Illinois University Beefs Up Security With 16 New Officers
Aug 29 2008 // DeKalb, Ill.-based Northern Illinois University (NIU) officials say the school has added 16 full-time security officers. NIU Lieutenant Todd Henert says the Public Safety Department now has 59 full-time officers. NIU...
Jury Awards $5 Million to Victim in Sex Abuse Case in Southern Illinois
Aug 28 2008 // A jury awarded $5 million to James Wisniewski, a former altar boy on Wednesday, August 27, in a widely watched sexual abuse trial. Rev. Raymond Kownacki was convicted of sexually abusing Wisniewski and other youths and top...
Northern Illinois President Pleased with New Campus Safety Law
Aug 26 2008 // The president of Northern Illinois University says he’s pleased that Governor Rod Blagojevich has signed the state’s new Campus Security Enhancement Act. The law was written partially in response to the...
Illinois Mayor Charged with Insurance Fraud Steps Down
Aug 26 2008 // Niles, Illinois’ long-time mayor, Nicholas Blase, is stepping down after 47 years. In a statement on the village Web site, Blase, 80, said his retirement would be effective Monday, Sept. 1. The Village Board will...
Amerigroup Lawsuit Settled for $225 Million in Illinois Fraud Case
Aug 19 2008 // An insurance company giant has agreed to pay $225 million to settle a lawsuit that accused it of discriminating against pregnant women and other high-risk patients in Illinois. The Illinois attorney general’s office...
