The Radium Girls case exposed how a celebrated scientific wonder became a devastating workplace poison. Their suffering ...

In most non-pandemic years, Rachel Kozicki and her family would likely have been spending a sunny spring break at Walt Disney World, a typical Easter vacation spot. Instead, Rachel, a sophomore at ...

The town of Ottawa, Ill., is banding together to honor the memories of watch dial painters who were poisoned by a radium paint in the town during the 1920s and 1930s. Piller’s father, William, is a ...

An Augustana College student and filmmaker is determined to shed light on the stories of the Illinois radium girls, a group of female factory workers who ingested potentially deadly amounts of radium ...