Q–In our 60-year-old house the basement pipes are covered with asbestos and over this is a plaster covering. The plaster has disintegrated in various places and is hanging down, exposing the asbestos.

Q: I live in a 35-year-old house that has forced-air furnace pipes covered with asbestos. There are no breaks in the asbestos, but I wonder whether I could cover them (wearing a mask) with duct tape.

Question: Beatrice asks: I live in a 35-year-old house that has forced-air furnace pipes covered with asbestos. There are no breaks in the asbestos, but I wonder if I can cover them (wearing a mask) ...

— A Parchment resident claims a city official lied to him about the presence of asbestos-covered piping at the shuttered paper mill next to his property on Sanford Street. David Schafer said he has ...

Students at Chesapeake’s Crestwood Middle School were exposed to elevated levels of asbestos for a day and a half this week before the school was evacuated and the mineral was cleaned up. Health ...

A Chicago-area display manufacturer that had five of its own untrained and unprotected employees remove asbestos from pipes and boilers inside its factory has been fined $1.2 million for 27 willful ...

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Officials at Lake Forest High School are breathing a collective sigh of relief because they`ve learned that the last major project in the school`s renovation plan will not break their budget. The ...

A contractor charged with building a new Near West Side police station is suing the Public Building Commission of Chicago, claiming the city agency was aware of materials containing asbestos beneath ...