Radium Girls of Ottawa, Illinois
During the early 1900's Radium Dial Corp. chose Ottawa, Illinois, in the heart of Starved Rock Country as the site of its largest luminous watch dial plant. The product used to make these dials glow, pure poison, radium! The result was prolonged gruesome death, contamination, and unthinkable cover-up. The Radium Girls of Ottawa, Illinois, puts you in the footsteps of these brave women.