If you drive outside the city limits of Chicago, you will no doubt be amazed at how quickly the landscape transforms from urban to rural. In fact, you may not realize that we have a thriving agricultural industry here in Illinois with farmers growing all kinds of...
If you drive by a residential or commercial construction site, you will undoubtedly see everything from bulldozers and dump trucks to cement mixers and tool belts. You will also more than likely see multiple ladders or an intricate system of scaffolding. What you may...
While we prefer to think that serious construction accidents are largely a thing of the past due to improvements in safety equipment and a greater overall awareness of workplace dangers, this simply isn't the case. In fact, hundreds of thousands of hard working men...
Even though we tend to think of most jobs as being largely stationary, meaning workers essentially stay in the same place, this is far from the case. Every day, thousands of people across Illinois operate trucks and other heavy machinery that takes them from point A...
It happens at factories, offices, warehouses, construction sites, retail operations and other job sites everyday: A worker suffers a serious back injury while performing an otherwise routine task. What makes these back injuries so frustrating for employees is that...
When a workplace here in Illinois is rocked by a fatal accident, investigators with the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration are dispatched to the scene to figure out what exactly happened and whether an employer's conduct played any role. In the event...
With warmer temperatures finally returning to the long range forecast here in Chicago and summer right around the corner, workers can once again look forward to eating their lunches outside and talking walks over their breaks. However, federal officials and work...
From dairy to corn production, farming is an incredibly vital component of our economy here in the state of Illinois. What most of us might not realize, however, is that farming can actually prove to be a somewhat dangerous profession, with farmers routinely at risk...
With the final day of the spring legislative session only weeks away, state lawmakers will be very busy in the coming days, holding committee meetings and taking final votes in both the House and Senate. One very intriguing bill that will likely come before both...
Every day, people throughout Chicago take off their coats, pull out their chairs and sit down at their desks for another day of work. This of course means another eight to ten hours spent sitting in front of their computer monitors, pounding away at a keyboard while...