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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.

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.

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.

The Environmental Protection Agency made a bombshell announcement Wednesday about Sterigenics–the lab accused of putting out cancer causing fumes in the suburbs.

A suburban Chicago plant that sterilizes medical instruments faces a lawsuit alleging air pollution violations.

Willowbrook resident Sue Kamuda welcomed the governor and the Illinois Environmental Protraction Agency’s decision Tuesday to push for the temporary shutdown of a 30 plus year old company that has been accused of pumping harmful emissions into the air.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to perform “ambient air testing” at the Sterigenics facility at the center of an emissions controversy in Willowbrook, DuPage County officials announced Thursday.

A meeting over Sterigenics controversy in Willowbrook wrapped up Wednesday at the Marriott and people are very upset.

A man who grew up in Willowbrook near medical sterilization service provider, Sterigenics, has filed a lawsuit against the company following a federal report that found Sterigenics released cancer-causing chemicals into the air.

Neighbors in Willowbrook demanded Monday a local Sterigenics plant stop operating immediately — but village officials say it’s not so simple.