Top 5 richest people in Illinois, so Forbes

Forbes recently published her list of billionaires worldwide for 2025.
Illinoisaners are on the list, but are determined by the state in a separate report from 2024, which we have listed in this report.

Forbes has published its annual list of billionaires and several Illinoisans in the club.

There are more billionaires than ever and they are richer than ever.

Here are the billionaires who are on the list and how Illinois puts on.

Richest people in Illinois

Forbes does not indicate in the 2025 report in which people come from Illinois, but they identify Lukas Walton as the richest person in the state of Lincoln in a comparison from state to state.

Walton, 38, has a net asset of 39 billion US dollars. He is the grandson of the Walmart founder Sam Walton.

However, the richest people in Illinois are given in Forbes' 2024 ranking of billionaires in the United States. Here are people with the highest assets:

The 38 -year -old Lukas Walton had a net value of 33.9 billion US dollars and grows. He was the 25th richest person in the United States

2. Patrick Ryan, 87, is CEO and founder of the Ryan Specialty Holdings, based in Chicago, a wholesale and special insurance company. He had a net assets of $ 12.3 billion and grows. Ryan was the 71st richest person in the USA

3. Neil Bluhm, 86, is the owner of Chicago Properties such as 900 North Michigan and Ritz-Carlton Chicago. Bluhm had a net assets of 7 billion US dollars and grows. He was the 169th richest person in the USA

4. Thomas Pritzker, 74, is one of several heirs in the Pritzker family, reported Forbes. He is the chairman of Hyatt Hotels Corporation. Pritzker had a net assets of 6.8 billion US dollars. He was the 179th richest person in the USA

5. Joe Mansueto, 68, started the independent investment research company Morningstar in 1984. He had a net value of 6.7 billion US dollars and grows. Mansueto was the 184th richest person in the USA

Forbes 400 with a billionaire after the state usually released in autumn.

Where does Governor JB Pritzker fit in the list?

The governor of Illinois and his sister Penny Pritzker are named on the list.

The 65 -year -old Penny Pritzker had a net value of 4.1 billion US dollars. Forbes identified them as an investor and one of the billionaire series of the Pritzker assets, which comes from Hyatt hotel. She was the 329th richest person in the USA

The 59 -year -old governor Pritzker had a fortune of 3.7 billion US dollars, which made him the 359th richest person in the USA and the 15th richest in the state.

Who are the richest people in the world?

According to Forbes' 2025 list, the richest people in the world are here.

Elon Musk, 53, was a co -foundation of seven companies, including electric car manufacturer Tesla, rocket producer SpaceX and Startup Xai for artificial intelligence. Its net work is 342 billion US dollars and grows. Muschus is an American.
Mark Zuckerberg, 40, started Facebook in 2004, so that the pupils went as a 19-year-old name with photos of classmates. Zuckerberg has a net assets of 216 billion US dollars. He is an American.
Jeff Bezos, 61, founded the e-commerce company, Amazon, from his garage in Seattle in 1994. It has a net value of 215 billion US dollars and grows. Bezos is American.
Larry Ellison, 80, is the chairman, Chief Technology Officer and co -founder of the software giant Oracle, of which he has about 40%. Ellison has a net value of 192 billion US dollars and grows. He is an American.
Bernard Arnault & Family are listed here. Bernard Arnault, 76, supervises the LVMH -Reich of 75 fashion and cosmetics brands, including Louis Vuitton and Sephora. He has a net asset of 178 billion US dollars. He is French.

“Richer than ever”

Forbes reported over 140 billionaires in 1987. There are 3,028 in the list from this year.

“There are not only more of them, they are also richer than ever,” the report with a collective 16.1 trillion dollars.

Where did this data come from?

Forbes identified the source of information for each of the people listed in its 2024 report. It often came from the companies in which the people listed are connected.

The list of billionaires from 2025 is “a snapshot of the wealth”, the report says, and share prices and exchange rates were used by March 7 to create the list.

In the 2025 report, individuals are involved in certain cases of wealth and children of a billionaire and children instead of “several and family families who share the assets, namely if this person is the founder of the assets”.

What is Net Worth?

Net assets are shown by deducting the liabilities of a person from their assets.

Tom Ackerman covers Breaking News and Trend News with general news for the Springfield State Journal Register Breaking News. It can be reached at tacackerman@gannett.com.