Two construction workers were critically injured after a building partially collapsed on them Monday in suburban Westmont.
The collapse happened about 12:30 p.m. at a building under construction on the southwest corner of Cass Avenue and Quincy Street, the Village of Westmont said in a statement posted to social media.
The two workers were taken to Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove with critical injuries that were not considered life-threatening, officials said.
Traffic was shut down on Cass Avenue between Burlington Avenue and Richmond Street for the “foreseeable future,” officials said.
The village said officials with the U.S. Department of Labor would investigate the incident.
WESTMONT, Ill. (WLS) Two people were critically injured in a building collapse in west suburban Westmont Monday afternoon, village officials said.
A spokesperson for the village said around 12:30 p.m. there was a partial collapse at a new multi-use building under construction at the intersection of Cass Avenue and Quincy Street. Two workers suffered critical but non-life threatening injuries, the spokesman said.
The workers were taken to Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital for treatment. No information about them, including ages, genders or names, have been released.
Cass Avenue is closed between Quincy and Richmond while the incident is being investigated. Officials did not say when they expected the street to reopen.
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What happened to Carr Square?
The neighborhood flourished for a century before modernist city planners replaced it with what they saw as the future.
Carr Square Park, Compton and Dry s Pictorial St. Louis, 1876
Neighborhoods in St. Louis were annihilated in the years after World War II in the name of âprogress.â Iâve looked at Mill Creek in the past, and recently I investigated the vanished Kosciusko neighborhood on the near South Side. But a neighborhood that almost no one remembers today, but yet probably features in the family history of tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of St. Louisans and Americans, is the Carr Square neighborhood north of downtown. I touched on the deplorable living conditions of one part of that historic section of St. Louis years ago, as the attention of the plight of the desperately poor living in the rundown tenements north of Washington Avenue came to light to early 20th century reformers. But the entire neighborhood was not