SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — A task force created in the wake of a deadly Metro East tornado has issued recommendations for better protecting warehouse workers. Six people were killed when an EF3 tornado with ...

Tucked away in the more than 400 bills Illinois state lawmakers passed during their spring session is a bill that aims to improve warehouse safety during a tornado. “I was elated,” said Rep. Katie ...

SPRINGFIELD — The warehouse safety bill that stemmed from the deadly Edwardsville tornado in 2021 is now officially on the books. Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker recently signed the Warehouse Safety Tornado ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - The family of a delivery driver who died last month when a tornado collapsed the central Illinois Amazon facility where he worked filed a wrongful death lawsuit Monday in ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has opened an investigation into the collapse of an Amazon warehouse in Illinois, after an EF-3 tornado caused major structural damage to the building ...

The final recommendations from an Illinois warehouse safety task force, created after a deadly 2021 tornado in Edwardsville, provide a good starting point for future legislation, said a state lawmaker ...

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. – Officials are confirming two fatalities at an Amazon delivery facility in Edwardsville following Friday night’s severe weather. Multiple people were trapped inside the facility ...

Lynn and Carla Cope, the parents of Amazon employee Clayton Lynn Cope who died in a tornado, attend a memorial service for the victims in Edwardsville on Friday, Dec. 17, 2021. Clayton Cope, 29, was a ...

Tucked away in the more than 400 bills Illinois state lawmakers passed during their spring session is a bill that aims to improve warehouse safety during a tornado. “I was elated,” said Rep. Katie ...