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Inside the botched recall of a dangerous toy

August 22, 2021 at 7:47 p.m.

Inside a gray government cubicle littered with colorful construction toys, Jonathan Midgett played with pieces from a Magnetix set, one of the year's hottest sellers. Midgett connected and disconnected them...

Finger-pointing furious in deal gone sour

August 21, 2021 at 2:35 p.m.

Magnetix building sets were such hot sellers for Rose Art Industries that a rival toymaker bought the family-owned company. Now the legacy of that toy is haunting Mega Brands, the...

Not until a boy died.

August 18, 2019 at 3:43 p.m.

Sharon Grigsby pleaded with the operator at the federal safety hot line. A popular new toy, Magnetix, nearly killed one of her preschoolers. Please do something, Grigsby remembers urging.When the...

Not until a boy died.

August 21, 2021 at 4:18 p.m.

Sharon Grigsby pleaded with the operator at the federal safety hot line. A popular new toy, Magnetix, nearly killed one of her preschoolers. Please do something, Grigsby remembers urging. When...

Not until a boy died.

August 22, 2021 at 10:03 a.m.

Sharon Grigsby pleaded with the operator at the federal safety hot line. A popular new toy, Magnetix, nearly killed one of her preschoolers. Please do something, Grigsby remembers urging.When the...

Feds delay action on other toy; kids burned

January 30, 2019 at 7:04 a.m.

The government's failure to police Rose Art's troubled Magnetix toys was not an isolated case of dithering. Long before Magnetix were launched, a Philadelphia attorney urged the U.S. Consumer Product...

When getting it in writing isn’t enough

August 21, 2021 at 12:12 p.m.

When is a promise not a promise? When a company makes it to somebody about to retire. Just ask Jim Morrison. Continental Insurance, where Morrison had worked for 42 years,...

Where there’s smoke, there might be food research, too

June 17, 2018 at 4:24 a.m.

America's largest foodmaker and its biggest cigarette company for years have likened themselves to distant siblings, giants that just happened to be owned by the same parent company. In fact,...

O’Hare’s face-lift sags

August 22, 2021 at 3:46 p.m.

A construction project designed to give a "new face" to passenger terminals at O'Hare International Airport is up to $48 million over budget, eight months behind schedule and plagued by...

O’Hare rehab back on, but it’s not in the clear

August 22, 2021 at 3:25 p.m.

Chicago officials on Tuesday ordered runway construction to resume at O'Hare International Airport after an appeals court ruled that opponents of the project failed to prove they would suffer irreparable...

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