The city of Wilmington is being taken to court for a river dam it owns that some have called "a drowning machine."
Since 1982, 21 people have drowned and another 20 have been rescued at the dam on the Kankakee River, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday in Will County.
The suit, filed by the mother of two Joliet children who drowned on Memorial Day near the dam, seeks more than $1 million in damages from the city for the deaths of Eder Arroyo, 12, and Abigail Arroyo, 13.
"So many people have died. When is it going to end?" asked Katherine Cardenas, a Chicago attorney representing the children's mother. "When will the city put the public safety before recreational park areas? When will it end? That's all the family wants is for no other person to have to bury their children because of this dam."
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