ROCKTON — The huge black plume of smoke rising from the Chemtool fire that hung over the homes on Watts Avenue and other parts of the village is long gone. So too are the out-of-town news helicopters ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Neighbors who lived within a 3-mile radius of the June 14, 2021, Chemtool industrial fire in Rockton have reached a $94.5 million ...

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ROCKTON, Ill. — More than 10 months after a six-alarm fire ripped through a northern Illinois chemical plant, the company that owns the facility has been ordered to reimburse multiple state and local ...

ROCKTON — For two years, it's been known that Chemtool didn't have fire suppression equipment in the manufacturing area which caught fire in 2021, but now, new details show the company turned down ...

ROCKTON (WREX) — A lot can change in a year, but people who live near the Chemtool plant in Rockton are frustrated by how little movement there's been over the past 365 days. Evan Shoepski has been ...

Officials have found elevated levels of harmful metals in groundwater monitoring wells at a Rockton Superfund toxic waste site. But the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency noted that the ...

ROCKTON, Ill. — More than a year after a six-alarm fire destroyed much of a northern Illinois chemical plant, we now know exactly what burned. The Chemtool, Inc. plant in Rockton burned for over a ...

Neighbors who lived within a 3-mile radius of the June 14, 2021, Chemtool industrial fire in Rockton have reached a $94.5 million preliminary settlement with the company. Neighbors, homeowners and ...