A Polish-speaking life insurance agent for Chicago and the suburbs
Paulina Swietek-Gorski, Licensed Life Insurance Agent · Goodwill Financial, Elmhurst, IL
Paulina Swietek-Gorski is a licensed life insurance agent with Goodwill Financial, an independent, family-run agency in Elmhurst, Illinois. She works in English and Polish. This page is for anyone searching for a Polish-speaking insurance agent in Chicago: people who want the paperwork explained in Polish, and people whose parents or grandparents do, even when they themselves would rather talk in English.
Why a Polish-speaking insurance agent matters
Many Polish households in Chicagoland run in two languages. The adult children read the emails and compare the options. The parents want to hear it in Polish before they agree to anything. A life insurance policy has words that are hard enough in one language: beneficiary, rider, death benefit, living benefits, cash value. When the agent can explain each of them in both languages on the same call, the whole family ends up with the same understanding of what was bought and why.
Paulina holds the conversation in whichever language the person in front of her thinks in, and switches when someone else joins. Parents are welcome on the call. Nothing gets signed until everyone at the table understands it. The application itself can be walked through in Polish; the policy documents are issued in English by the insurance company, and Paulina reviews them with you line by line.
A common starting point is a policy from work. Group life usually ends when the job does, and it is often smaller than what a family with a mortgage and children would need. Paulina reads what you already have first, in either language, and tells you plainly whether it is enough.
What Paulina helps with
- Life insurance with living benefits: coverage you can draw on while you are alive, after a qualifying serious illness such as a heart attack, stroke, or cancer. On many of the policies she works with, the rider is included at no additional premium. Using it reduces the death benefit paid later.
- Term life insurance: the most coverage per dollar for a set period, commonly 10 to 30 years, with a level premium for the whole term.
- Indexed universal life (IUL): permanent coverage with a cash value account linked to a market index, with a 0% floor in a falling year and a cap in a strong one. It is life insurance, not an investment, and you see the real numbers before deciding.
- IUL for kids: a policy started while a child is young locks in low insurance costs and their ability to be insured later, whatever their health does.
- Mortgage protection: a term policy sized to the loan that pays your family, not the bank, and moves with you through a refinance.
- Free insurance analysis and quote: a review of what you already have, what it costs, and what a better fit would look like. No obligation.
Where she works
Goodwill Financial's office is at 579 W. North Ave, Suite 300, Elmhurst, IL 60126. Paulina works with families in Chicago, including the Northwest Side, and across the suburbs:
- Chicago
- Jefferson Park
- Portage Park
- Belmont Cragin
- Avondale
- Norwood Park
- Elmhurst
- Niles
- Norridge
- Harwood Heights
- Park Ridge
- Des Plaines
- Mount Prospect
- Schaumburg
- Elk Grove Village
- Wood Dale
- Addison
- Bloomingdale
- Bensenville
- Franklin Park
- Lombard
- Villa Park
- Orland Park
- Lemont
Most meetings happen by phone or video, so there is no need to drive to Elmhurst unless you want to sit down in person. She also helps clients anywhere in the country the same way.
How it works
- Reach out. Call, email, or save the contact from her card. There is no form to fill out and nobody hands you off to someone else.
- About 20 minutes, in English or Polish. What you have today, where the gaps are, and what living benefits would change. Anyone in the family can join.
- You decide. Real options compared across carriers, with real numbers on paper. If what you already have is right, you will hear that too. No pressure either way.
The agency behind her
Immigrants built Goodwill Financial for families and small-business owners. The agency has served its community for more than twenty years and holds a 4.9-star Google rating. Paulina is appointed with National Life Group, a mutual life insurance company founded in 1848, and as an independent agent she is not tied to a single company.
Po polsku
Wolisz czytać po polsku? Cała strona, wraz z opisem świadczeń za życia, polisą dla dziecka i odpowiedziami na najczęstsze pytania, jest dostępna po polsku: ubezpieczenie na życie po polsku w Chicago.
Common questions
Do you speak Polish?
Yes. Paulina works in English and Polish, and she can walk through the whole application with you in Polish. The policy documents are issued in English by the insurance company, and she reviews them with you together before anything is signed.
Can my parents join the call in Polish?
Yes, and it happens often. One person can ask questions in English while a parent or grandparent follows along in Polish on the same call. Everyone hears the same explanation, in the language they are comfortable with.
Is the first meeting free?
Yes. Every new client gets a free insurance analysis and quote, by phone, by video, or in the Elmhurst office. There is no obligation to buy anything, and if what you already have fits, Paulina will say so.
Do I need to come to Elmhurst?
No. Most meetings, including the application, happen by phone or video. The office at 579 W. North Ave, Suite 300 in Elmhurst is available if you would rather meet in person.
Which insurance companies do you work with?
Paulina is an independent agent at Goodwill Financial, appointed with National Life Group, and she is not tied to a single company. She compares options across carriers and shows you the numbers before you decide.
A first conversation costs nothing and obligates you to nothing.