Sterigenics

A Cook County jury on Monday ruled that Sterigenics and two other companies should pay $363 million in damages for exposing a woman and thousands of other Willowbrook residents to dangerous levels of cancer-causing ethylene oxide gas. NBC 5’s Charlie Wojciechowski reports.

A Cook County jury on Monday ruled that Sterigenics and two other companies should pay $363 million in damages for exposing a woman and thousands of other Willowbrook residents to dangerous levels of cancer-causing ethylene oxide gas.

Six teachers from Hinsdale South High School who were diagnosed with cancer announced they filed a lawsuit against Sterigenics, alleging emissions from the company’s plant caused their cancer. NBC 5’s Chris Coffey reports.

Six former teachers at Hinsdale South High School filed a lawsuit against Sterigenics Friday, alleging that their cancers were caused by exposure to ethylene oxide emissions from the company’s Willowbrook plant located less than a mile from the school.

Nearly two dozen new cases were filed Thursday as a lawsuit against Sterigenics expanded, alleging people exposed to ethylene oxide emitted by the medical sterilization plant have been left with serious or terminal medical conditions. NBC 5’s Christian Farr has the story.

Residents claimed victory in the heated battle with Sterigenics on Monday after the medical sterilization company announced plans to leave Willowbrook. NBC 5’s Natalie Martinez reports. 

Sterigenics has announced plans to leave Willowbrook despite a recent agreement allowing it to reopen months after it was shut down by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency due to due to emissions of a cancer-causing gas in neighborhoods surrounding the plant.

Sterigenics has announced plans to leave Willowbrook despite a recent agreement allowing it to reopen months after it was shut down by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency due to due to emissions of a cancer-causing gas in neighborhoods surrounding the plant.

Sterigenics will be allowed to reopen in a Chicago suburb after it was shut down by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency due to due to emissions of a cancer-causing gas in neighborhoods surrounding the plant, a judge ruled Friday.

Multiple people have filed suit against two Lake County factories, alleging the plants caused their health problems by releasing a cancer-causing chemical into the air.

Dozens of more victims in Chicago suburbs have come forward to sue Sterigenics over toxic gas emissions.

More than 100 people rallied together in suburban Willowbrook on Thursday, one again calling for the permanent closure of the controversial Sterigenics medical sterilization plant.

Attorneys for neighbors of a suburban Chicago medical equipment cleaning plant are criticizing an agreement between the state of Illinois and the plant’s owner.

The operator of a closed suburban Chicago plant where medical instruments were sterilized with a cancer-causing chemical has reached an agreement with the state of Illinois that will allow the plant to reopen, both sides announced Wednesday.

Approximately six months after the controversial Sterigenics plant in suburban Willowbrook was partially shut down, the plant could potentially re-open after the company agreed to a new deal with the state of Illinois.

Illinois Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Wednesday he has “no concerns at all” about a media report that federal authorities are investigating a property tax break he got by taking toilets out of a Chicago mansion he owns.

Residents say the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency has known about the cancer risk from the Willowbrook Sterigenics plant for decades. And they say it is time for them to act.

Illinois Environmental Protection Agency officials began testing water from wells in suburban Willowbrook Thursday, amid the controversy over potentially cancer-causing air emissions from the nearby Sterigenics facility.

A community meeting and forum will be hosted in Willowbrook by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to field questions about the cancer-causing air emissions from the Sterigenics plant.

A community meeting and forum will be hosted in Willowbrook by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to field questions about the cancer-causing air emissions from the Sterigenics plant.