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Van Dorn Co. v. Future Chemical and Oil Corp., 753 F.2d 565 (7th Cir. 1985) held that a corporate entity will be disregarded and the veil of limited liability pierced when two requirements are met: First, there must be such unity of interest and ownership that the separate personalities of the corporation and the individual [or other corporation] no longer exist; and second, circumstances must be such that adherence to the fiction of separate corporate existence would sanction a fraud or promote injustice. 753 F.2d at 569-70 (quoting Macaluso v. Jenkins, 95 Ill. App. 3d 461, 420 N.E.2d 251, 255, 50 Ill. ...