Via Capitol Fax, the documentary Radium City is available in full on YouTube. It’s a simply made, affecting account of the deaths attributed to the Radium Dial plant in Ottawa, Illinois ...

The case of several women who painted those clock and watch faces in a small town in the Midwest state of Illinois ... Now, in Ottawa, talking about the "Radium Girls" is no longer off-limits ...

An Augustana College student and filmmaker is determined to shed light on the stories of the Illinois radium girls ... to document the story of the Ottawa radium girls beyond what the public ...

New Jersey (the factory seen in the film), one in Ottawa, Illinois, and one in Waterbury, Connecticut. As depicted in the film, the real Radium Girls were poisoned at their workplaces, and many ...

It was 2006 when Klein first read about a then eighth-grade girl in the Ottawa area who wrote a play for a history project about the Radium Girls and ... plans for a statue. It’s encouraging ...

New Jersey starting in 1917 and the Radium Dial Company in Ottawa, Illinois, which opened in 1922. The girls, some as young as 14, painted watch dials with a luminous, radium-containing paint to ...

In the 1920s, young women worked in an Ottawa, Illinois ... to the radium poisoning. Many died. Earlier this month, I spoke with Kate Moore, author of the new book The Radium Girls: The Dark ...

The (Ottawa) Times reports the life-size bronze statue was unveiled Friday ... Pat Quinn proclaimed Friday Radium Girls Day in Illinois. The memorial grew out of a class project by then-eight ...