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SEC FORM 4 SEC Form 4

FORM 4

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP

Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940

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Check this box if no longer subject to Section 16. Form 4 or Form 5 obligations may continue. See Instruction 1(b).

1. Name and Address of Reporting Person^*

PILCH SAMUEL H

(Last)

(First)

(Middle)

C/O THE ALLSTATE CORPORATION

2775 SANDERS ROAD

(Street)

NORTHBROOK

60062-6127

(City)

(State)

(Zip)

2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol
ALLSTATE CORP [ ALL ]

5. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer
(Check all applicable)

	Director	10% Owner
X	Officer (give title below)	Other (specify below)
Controller

3. Date of Earliest Transaction (Month/Day/Year)
09/05/2006

4. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)

6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line)

X	Form filed by One Reporting Person
	Form filed by More than One Reporting Person

Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 3)	2. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year)	2A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year)	3. Transaction Code (Instr. 8)		4. Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed Of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5)			5. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 3 and 4)	6. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4)	7. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
1. Title of Security (Instr. 3)	2. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year)	2A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year)	Code	V	Amount	(A) or (D)	Price		6. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4)	7. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
Common Stock	09/05/2006		M		5,368	A	$31.78	29,605⁽¹⁾	D
Common Stock	09/05/2006		S		5,368	D	$58.78	24,237⁽¹⁾	D
Common Stock								1,978.598⁽²⁾	I	by 401(k) Plan

Table II - Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 3)	2. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	3. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year)	3A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year)	4. Transaction Code (Instr. 8)		5. Number of Derivative Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5)		6. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year)		7. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 3 and 4)		8. Price of Derivative Security (Instr. 5)	9. Number of derivative Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 4)	10. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4)	11. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 3)	2. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	3. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year)	3A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year)	Code	V	(A)	(D)	Date Exercisable	Expiration Date	Title	Amount or Number of Shares	8. Price of Derivative Security (Instr. 5)		10. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4)	11. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
Employee Stock Option (right to buy)	$31.78	09/05/2006		M			5,368	02/07/2005	02/07/2013	Common Stock	5,368	$31.78	5,368	D

Explanation of Responses:

1. The transactions reported in this Form 4 were effected pursuant to a Rule 10b5-1(c) trading plan adopted by the reporting person on April 24, 2006

2. Reflects acquisition of 34.2431 shares of The Allstate Corporation common stock since February 14, 2006 under The Savings and Profit Sharing Fund of Allstate Employees, a 401(k) plan, pursuant to the most recent plan statement, dated September 5, 2006.

	Katherine A. Smith for Samuel H. Pilch	09/06/2006
	** Signature of Reporting Person	Date
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POWER OF ATTORNEY


	KNOW BY ALL THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned hereby constitutes
and appoints each of Emma Kalaidjian, Joseph Kane, Katherine Smith and Janet
Zukowski, signing singly, the undersigned's true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:


(1)	execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's
	capacity as an officer and/or director of The Allstate Corporation
	(the "Company"), Forms 3, 4, and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a)
	of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder;

(2)	do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned
	which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such
	Form 3, 4, or 5 and timely file such form with the United States
	Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or similar
           authority; and

(3)	take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the
	foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of
	benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the
	undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such
	attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power
	of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and
	conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such attorney-in
           -fact's discretion.

	The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full
power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever
requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights
and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the
undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of
substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such
attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall
lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the
rights and powers herein granted.  The undersigned acknowledges that the
foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the
undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the
undersigned's responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934.



	This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until
the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with respect to
the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the
Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing
delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

	IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused the Power of Attorney
to be executed as of this _20th day of _  May   ____, 1998.






			____________/S/_____________________


			_Samuel H. Pilch   ________________
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