Question: I’m taking up a tile floor and need to dispose of it. I’m not sure if it’s asbestos tile or not. How and where can I dispose of it? Answer: There are two kinds of asbestos: friable, which is ...

Workers will spend the winter break removing an asbestos gym floor from Eisenhower School in Prospect Heights. “We figure let’s get it done now, when the kids won’t be around,” said Rick Ewanio, ...

The board of education unanimously approved a grant application Monday to help pay for the removal of approximately 15,000 square feet of asbestos floor tile from Barnes Elementary School. If approved ...

Q. When we bought our house, the home inspector told us the asphalt floor tiles in the kitchen might contain asbestos. At the time, we weren't particularly concerned. Now that we are remodeling, our ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Ongoing work to remove asbestos-containing floor tiles in the county's aging Law & Justice Center ...

When residents go to the polls Tuesday, they will determine whether the town should spend a half-million dollars to remove asbestos-laden tiles from Mansfield Middle School. For the past several years ...

Q: Our home is about 60 years old house and has asbestos floor tiles under the carpets. Now that we're selling, our agent wants us to list these tiles on our disclosure statement. She says this kind ...

A local contractor wants potential contracts they might bid on dealing with asbestos removal to be better defined in what the county is expecting from the work. Representatives of Bosley Construction ...

The Bremen Community High School District 228 board recently adopted an emergency resolution authorizing the use of about $12,000 in residual life-safety funds to finance a repair at a high school.