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This is a list of Superfund sites in Illinois designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. These sites are listed on the National Priorities List . 13 Sites are listed below.
Location Date Deaths Description Sources Lively massacre: Washington County: 1813: 3: Native Americans killed John Lively, his wife and their children [1] Indian Creek massacre: LaSalle County: 1832-05-21: 15: Attack by Native Americans on white settlers after settlers built a dam that prevented fish from reaching Potawatomi village [2] St ...
The E2 nightclub stampede occurred on February 17, 2003, at the E2 nightclub above the Epitome restaurant at 2347 South Michigan Avenue in the South Loop neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, in which 21 people died and more than 50 were injured when panic ensued from the use of pepper spray by a security guard to break up a fight. The club's ...
Law firm says West Yorkshire is a hotspot for cases of fatal silicosis, which affects stone workers.
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This is a list of people executed in Illinois. A total of twelve people convicted of murder have been executed by the state of Illinois since 1977. [1] All were executed by lethal injection. Another man condemned in Illinois, Alton Coleman, was executed in Ohio. [2] Capital punishment in Illinois was abolished in 2011.
Almost 25 years after federal authorities responding to news reports of deaths and illnesses descended on Libby, a town of about 3,000 people near the U.S.-Canada border, some asbestos victims and ...
Asbestosis affected about 157,000 people and resulted in 3,600 deaths in 2015. [8] [7] Asbestos use has been banned in a number of countries in an effort to prevent disease. [1] Statistics from the UK's Health and Safety Executive showed that in 2019, there were 490 asbestosis deaths. [10]