Officials in Willowbrook, Burr Ridge, Darien, and Hinsdale are reportedly considering jointly acquiring the Sterigenics properties in Willowbrook in an effort to prevent the company from reopening. Sterigenics was shut down in Willowbrook earlier in the year out of concerns about its emissions of ethylene oxide, a known cancer-causing chemical that is used to sterilize>> Read More

A nursing home abuse lawsuit has been filed after a video of two aides taunting a 91-year-old dementia patient surfaced on Snapchat. Video of Dementia Patient Posted on Snapchat The video at the center of the nursing home abuse lawsuit was reportedly recorded at the Abington of Glenview nursing home on December 21, 2018. In>> Read More

GWC attorney Louis Anthony Cairo recently obtained an $800,000.00 settlement for a woman who was injured in a semi-tractor-trailer accident in Calumet Park, IL. A Sudden Left Turn Changes Everything In March 2016, at around 6:30 a.m., Mr. Cairo’s client, a 54-year-old home care worker, was a passenger in a vehicle heading eastbound on 127th>> Read More

A 60-year-old man has died at a hospital following a pedestrian accident in northwest suburban Wheeling, a tragic incident that highlights the heightened vulnerability of pedestrians in traffic accidents. Pedestrian Death Days Later at Area Hospital On August 1, 2019, at about 8:45 p.m., police officers responded to calls of a pedestrian having been hit>> Read More

GWC attorneys Louis Anthony Cairo and Bennett J. Baker recently obtained a $1.9 million wrongful death settlement for the family of a young woman who was tragically killed in an Illinois semi truck accident. Semi Truck Accident Claims Two Lives In August 2016, a 25-year-old woman was a passenger in a small sedan that was>> Read More

WGN is reporting that there was a secret Sterigenics meeting with an offer of money presented just weeks before the company’s deal with the State of Illinois to reopen its Willowbrook facility. Secret Sterigenics Meeting Just Weeks Before Deal On July 17, 2019, Sterigenics and the Illinois Attorney General’s Office filed a proposed agreement to>> Read More

At least seventeen people have been injured in a school bus accident in unincorporated Libertyville, IL. The Libertyville school bus accident reportedly involved three buses and a dump truck. Libertyville School Bus Accident Was “Chain Reaction” According to authorities, the accident was a “chain reaction” – the term for a series of rear-end collisions involving>> Read More