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Week of July 6, 2016 Vol 49 • No 23 • www.thechicagocitizen.com

BILL’S BUSINESS

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NOMINATIONS OPEN FOR THE FIFTH ANNUAL WOMEN IN DIGITAL NEXT GENERATION AWARDS + P4

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MSI EXHIBIT SHOWCASES TECHNOLOGICAL BREAKTHROUGHS

Audit Bureau of Circulation ABC AUDITED

EDITORIAL

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Raising Healthier Kids

ccording to letsmove.gov, over the past three decades, childhood obesity rates in America have tripled, and today, nearly one in three children are overweight or obese. The numbers are even higher in African American and Hispanic communities, where nearly 40% of the children are overweight or obese. If these statistics aren’t motivation enough to get kids moving, then maybe an analysis of the end result might be a pause for cause. If nothing is done to solve the problem, letsmove. gov reports that one third of all children born in 2000 or later will suffer from diabetes at some point in their lives. > SEE MORE PAGE 2

Takes A Village

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ENTERTAINMENT

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ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS: GIVING BACK TO THE INDUSTRY HE LOVES + P7 First Lady Michelle Obama, along with Robin Roberts and chef Marcus Samuelsson, participates in a “Good Morning America” cooking segment at the GMA Studios in New York, N.Y., Feb. 22, 2013. The segment highlighted a new “Let’s Move!” partnership that makes finding healthy, reliable recipes easy for busy parents. (Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy)

D.O.M. Construction fails to report injury in latest of six failed inspections CHICAGO ‒ As a 54-year-old worker, who fell more than 11 feet as he installed a roof joist, recovered from his injuries, federal inspectors investigating his fall in March, arrived two days later and found a co-worker about 40 feet off the ground without proper fall protection. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited D.O.M. Construction for putting employees at risk by

violating fall safety standards and failing to report the injury to OSHA within 24 hours, as required. OSHA cited the company with one willful, two serious safety violations and one otherthan-serious violation after inspecting the site, a commercial building project on North Paulina Street. The company faces $40,000 in proposed federal fines for these citations. The agency has

cited the Mount Prospect-based company in five previous OSHA inspections for fall protection violations. “One worker’s fall and his potentially life-altering injuries were preventable. D.O.M. Construction must train its workers in fall protection standards and enforce the use of protective equipment on the job,” said Kathy Webb, OSHA’s area director in Calumet City.

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