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Who in Illinois was complaining inSeptember 2025?

21,976 complaints

When looking at complaint volume about a company or product, consider company size and/or market share. For example, companies with more customers may have more complaints than companies with fewer customers. The CFPB does not verify every allegation in a complaint before publishing it.Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Consumer Complaint Database. A complaint is a consumer's account of a problem; it is not a finding against the company.

Consumers in Illinois sent the CFPB 21,976 complaints in September 2025, up 2% on the month before (21,468) and up 91% on the same month a year earlier (11,525).

That is 4.4% of the 503,850 complaints received nationally in the month, or 173 per 100,000 residents against 147 nationally.

MeasureIllinoisUnited States
Complaints, Sep 202521,976503,850
Per 100,000 residents173147
The month before21,468—
Same month a year earlier11,525—

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By product

Product (CFPB label)ComplaintsShare
Credit reporting or other personal consumer reports20,07291.3%
Debt collection9874.5%
Credit card3301.5%
Checking or savings account2361.1%
Money transfer, virtual currency, or money service860.4%
Mortgage840.4%
Vehicle loan or lease670.3%
Student loan460.2%
Payday loan, title loan, personal loan, or advance loan350.2%
Debt or credit management200.1%
Prepaid card130.1%

Companies with the most complaints from Illinois in the month, with their size

Company (as named by the CFPB)Complaints, Sep 2025ShareCompany size
EQUIFAX, INC.7,04032%no public measure
TRANSUNION INTERMEDIATE HOLDINGS, INC.7,02332%no public measure
Experian Information Solutions Inc.5,24423.9%no public measure
CBC Companies, Inc.2371.1%no public measure
LEXISNEXIS1640.7%no public measure
Resurgent Capital Services L.P.960.4%no public measure
JPMORGAN CHASE & CO.950.4%$4.09tn assets
ENCORE CAPITAL GROUP INC.900.4%no public measure
CAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORPORATION880.4%$662bn assets
Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC810.4%no public measure
CITIBANK, N.A.700.3%$1.98tn assets
BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION700.3%$2.65tn assets
Bread Financial Holdings, Inc.530.2%$21bn assets
CCS Financial Services, Inc.500.2%no public measure
CL Holdings LLC490.2%no public measure
All other companies, including those not listed by name1,5266.9%—

CFPB: “When looking at complaint volume about a company or product, consider company size and/or market share. For example, companies with more customers may have more complaints than companies with fewer customers.” The CFPB does not verify every allegation in a complaint before publishing it. 5 of the 15 companies in this table have a public size measure. “No public measure” means the company could not be matched by name to a single institution in the FDIC, NCUA or HMDA files, not that it is small.

Questions and answers

How many CFPB complaints came from Illinois in September 2025?

21,976, which is 4.4% of the national total for the month. A year earlier: 11,525.

What were they about?

“Credit reporting or other personal consumer reports” (20,072), “Debt collection” (987), “Credit card” (330), “Checking or savings account” (236).

Does the CFPB verify complaints?

The CFPB does not verify every allegation in a complaint before publishing it.

Provenance

Source: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Consumer Complaint Database, bulk file downloaded 1 Oct 2026, complaints received through 1 Oct 2026. Only coded fields are used (company, product, sub-product, issue, state, dates, company response, timeliness); complaint narratives are never read, stored or shown. Complaints are published once the company responds or after 15 days, so the most recent two to three weeks are incomplete. Size measures: FDIC BankFind (report date 30 Jun 2026), NCUA call reports (30 Jun 2026), HMDA transmittal sheet (2025), Census Bureau population estimates (2025). All are US government works. Search the CFPB database · Methodology · Report an error.