Lisle, Ill.— Illinois Attorney General Jim Ryan and DuPage County State’s Attorney Joseph Birkett have filed suit against sheet metal equipment manufacturer Lockformer Co., charging that the firm has ...

LISLE, Ill. (AP) -- The owners of Lockformer Co. have agreed to pay $10 million to a group of homeowners whose wells were contaminated by a chemical from the company's Lisle metal fabricating plant.

State environmental investigators conceded this year that they needed to expand the search for the source of contaminated wells in Lisle, Lockformer Co. asserted Monday. In a two-page statement, the ...

A high-ranking official of Lockformer Co. in Lisle testified Monday that company officials have known since 1985 that potentially dangerous chemical spills were occurring at its Ogden Avenue plant.