OTTAWA, Ill. — Organizers say they now have nearly half the money they need to erect a monument to memorialize the “Radium Girls,” who once painted glow-in-the-dark watch dials at a factory in Ottawa.

In 1922, an exciting new opportunity came to the women of Ottawa, Illinois. The Radium Dial Company opened a factory and began hiring well-paid female employees by the dozen. Their job was to paint ...

The town of Ottawa, Ill., is banding together to honor the memories of watch dial painters who were poisoned by a radium paint in the town during the 1920s and 1930s. Piller’s father, William, is a ...

State radiation regulators reacted to the Scribbler’s March inquiry about two local watch-manufacturing companies that used radioactive materials by initiating a comprehensive investigation of the ...

The March 14 Scribbler column asked whether Lancaster women painted radium on watch dials. The answer: Yes, they did, at two watch manufacturing plants. But the Scribbler wants to know more before he ...

In the 1920s, working-class women were hired to paint radium onto glowing watch dials — and told to sharpen the brush with their lips. Dozens... Mae Keane, One Of The Last 'Radium Girls,' Dies At 107 ...