A Chicago teen will spend the next 25 years in prison after causing the wrongful death of a police dispatcher during a drunk joyriding session. The 18-year-old teen pleaded guilty to first-degree murder for his drunk driving car accident last year which killed the 42-year-old police dispatcher. Authorities say that the teen left a party>> Read More

In our last post we discussed fines proposed by federal regulators against a suburban Chicago electronic recycling facility that exposed its workers to dangerous level of lead in their workplace. Carol Stream’s COM2 Computers and Technologies LLC was not the only Chicago-area employer to fail a federal workplace safety inspection recently. Inspectors from the U.S.>> Read More

There is no substitute for experience. Teens have long been associated with high-risk driving and frequent car accidents. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration lists car accidents as the number one cause of death among people between the ages of 15 and 20. 16-year-old drivers suffer an accident rate roughly 10 times that of older>> Read More