Soup & Stories “The Radium Girls: An Illinois Tragedy” today at 11 a.m.

The LLCC Feminist Activist Coalition  is hosting a Soup & Stories today from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The event features Tara McClellan McAndrew, writer for NPR Illinois, presenting “The Radium Girls: An Illinois Tragedy.” In the early 1900s, women hired by the U.S. Radium Corporation as watch-dial painters later died from radium poisoning. Women who worked in the plant located in Ottawa, Ill., were victims of the radium poisoning. The Soup & Stories event will take place in the large lounge of A. Lincoln Commons. The event is free for students and $3 for faculty and staff.