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 ...

OTTAWA, Ill. — Organizers say they now have nearly half the money they need to erect a monument to memorialize the “Radium Girls,” who once painted glow-in-the-dark watch dials at a factory ...

OTTAWA, Ill. (AP) — Organizers say they now have nearly half the money they need to erect a monument to memorialize the 'Radium Girls,' who once painted glow-in-the-dark watch dials at a factory ...

Melanie Marnich’s one-act, directed by Kristin Davis, details the radioactive history of the “Radium Girls” of Ottawa, Illinois. Painting the dials of the watches and clocks at the Radium ...

The Burton Leavitt Theatre will transform into the 1920s when “Radium Girls” takes the stage for its first performance Friday ...

OTTAWA, Ill. (AP) — A northern Illinois city has paid tribute to former factory employees who worked under dangerous conditions. The Radium Girls memorial honors the women who worked at watch ...

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 their experiences in the 1920s and 1930s.

Hundreds of women and girls were ... equipment with radium to make them glow in the dark, they had no problem finding employees. Dial painters at Radium Dial Co. in Ottawa, Illinois in the 1920s.

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 ...

OTTAWA — A northern Illinois city has paid tribute to former factory employees who worked under dangerous conditions. The Radium Girls memorial honors the women who worked at watch-painting ...

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 ...