This week, the story of women who worked at the Radium Dial Company factory in Ottawa, using radium-laced paint on glow-in-the-dark clocks and watches. Unaware of the health risks, many died from radium poisoning. Their case became a landmark moment in the workers' rights movement.
Also, we'll hear about the stress on health care facilities in southern Illinois amid the latest COVID-19 surge.
Those stories and more on Statewide.
Our lineup:
* Author Tara McClellan McAndrew recounts the tragic story of the Radium Girls.
* Yvonne Boose explains how a Freeport Theater is bringing the women's story to the stage.