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 ...

"These Shining Lives" tells the true story of four female workers at the Radium Dial Company in Ottawa, Illinois.

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 ...

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 ...

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 in ...

The technique was called lip pointing. They would put the small brush with camel hair bristles between their lips, twist it with their tongue and then dip it into a mixture of sulphite, water and ...

In 1922, an exciting new opportunity came to the women of Ottawa, Illinois. The Radium Dial Company opened a factory and began hiring well-paid female employees by the dozen. Their job was to paint ...

In November, I attended North High School’s production of “Radium Girls.” I found the story compelling and decided to read the book the play is based on — “The Radium Girls” by Kate Moore. Moore tells ...

Who wouldn’t want to be known as a “shining woman”? Certainly the young women (and girls — some only 14 or 15 years old) who worked for the radium dial factories were fascinated and delighted by the ...

While researching her family ties in Ottawa, Evanston poet Ann Hudson “stumbled upon” the inspiration for her latest poetry chapbook: a statue of a Radium Girl. The Radium Girl statue struck a chord ...

YAKIMA, Wash. -- To the untrained eye, scientific progress often resembles magic. In a world of machines that can traverse the globe, computers we can hold in our hands and spaceships capable of ...