The state government agency responsible for building and maintaining highways and other roads across Illinois has “paused” awarding contracts to a suburban construction company run by members of the Palumbo family — and the firm is now suing, records show.

Builders Paving LLC claims in recent court filings that the Illinois Department of Transportation “unjustifiably and unlawfully” refused to award the company nine contracts totaling more than $21 million even though it “submitted the lowest responsible and responsive bid between September 20, 2024 and March 7, 2025.”

Builders — part of a group of affiliated construction businesses known as Builders Companies — is asking the court to, among other things, direct “IDOT and its employees to immediately award the contracts” before there’s “

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