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, and the legal ...

In the early part of the 20th century, the chemical element radium was widely believed to cure a number of ailments. It also was used as a way to create glow-in-the-dark faces on watches and clocks.

Three Crows Theatre has made a name for itself performing plays based on true stories, and this one hits close to home. Melanie Marnich’s one-act, directed by Kristin Davis, details the radioactive ...

In most musicals, factory work is presented as quotidian drudgery, something to be endured before heading out, say, to ride the carousel. But in the early minutes of “Shining Lives: A Musical,” the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...