They are terrible risks today, although vastly improved from the days when children also worked in the mines.
Increasingly, Bohemians, Italians, and other Europeans came to work the mines. But there was a small revival starting in the 1920s made possible by strip-mining. Soil and rock.
It one of the leading strip-mining areas in Illinois.
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