A Village Waits, Wonders, Worries: ; Illinois Residents Take Stand Against Chemical Company
Charleston Gazette › November 24, 2010
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CHICAGO - Even if it meant more bad news, they wanted to know.
More than 100 residents poured into the McCullom Lake village hall last week after a crushing development in a court case that many had hoped would resolve once and for all whether a nearby chemical plant had polluted the water and air, causing dozens of their friends and neighbors to develop brain tumors.See the full content of this document
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A Village Waits, Wonders, Worries: ; Illinois Residents Take Stand Against Chemical Company
In all, 32 separate claims were filed against the chemical company. But a judge in a Philadelphia courtroom recently abruptly halted the first of the cases to go to trial and sent the jury home, reserving harsh words for the expert witness whose report had tried to show the cancers were somehow linked.
Margaret Boyer, a longtime resident of the tin...See the full content of this document
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