Category: Premises Liability Blog

DECATUR, Ill. (September 12, 2023) – An explosion occurred just after 7 p.m. Sunday in Decatur, Illinois, a large city about 180 miles southwest of Chicago. The explosion happened at the east plant of the Archer Daniels Midland Company facility and injured at least eight people with six of them…

BELVIDERE, Ill. (April 3, 2023) – One person died and more than 40 people were injured after the roof of the historic Apollo Theatre in Belvidere collapsed during severe weather Friday evening. The theater was hosting a sold-out heavy metal concert when a suspected tornado ripped through the area. Around…

By: Noah Dolan HOBART, Ind. (July 19, 2022) – Health and safety concerns have displaced dozens of residents of a northwest Indiana apartment building. The Hobart Fire Department closed the building due to potentially severe health and safety issues in the building such as asbestos, black mold, mild flooding, sewage…

By: Noah Dolan CHICAGO (July 7, 2022) – Several deaths and injuries were reported throughout the United States over the Fourth of July weekend due to firework accidents. According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, the rate of firework-related injuries and deaths in the United States has risen 25%…

CHICAGO (January 7, 2022) –  A large chunk of aluminum cladding fell off Chicago’s Hancock building, one of Chicago’s tallest buildings, Wednesday afternoon, landing in a planter on Chestnut Street. Luckily no one was injured, but the incident did leave neighbors and pedestrians in the area shaken up. Representatives of…

JOPLIN, Mont. – Officials have not yet released information on what they suspect caused an Amtrak train to derail in north-central Montana, killing three people. Seven remained hospitalized Sunday as a team of investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board arrived at the site. The train carrying 145 passengers and 13…

By: Sofia Hasty  SANDUSKY, OHIO- A malfunction at Cedar Point, a popular amusement park in Ohio, has left a 44-year-old Michigan woman in intensive care with severe brain injury. The incident occurred on August 15 while the woman was waiting in line for the Top Thrill Dragster roller coaster. According to…

By: Sofia Hasty LOS ANGELES – At least 17 people, including police officers, were hit by a massive explosion of illegal fireworks Wednesday evening. That night, bomb squad officers had been in the area of 27th Street and San Pedro seizing over 5,000 pounds of explosives planned to be illegally…

ROCKTON, Ill. – A massive explosion at a Winnebago County chemical plant ignited a fire and prompted hundreds of evacuations Monday, less than a month after the plant was inspected by a federal agency. Around 7:30 a.m., emergency crews rushed to the scene of a fire at the Chemtool Inc., a…

CHICAGO – The Chicago Park District is conducting a “broad investigation” into complaints that dozens of workers at the city’s pools and beaches regularly committed “sexual assault, sexual abuse, sexual harassment, workplace violence, and other criminal acts, according confidential reports obtained by WBEZ.  The alleged assaults sometimes involved minors. According to WBEZ,…