[5] The station sat on a 72-acre area consisting of buildings and power generating infrastructure and provided storage for over 300,000 tons of coal.

The forty-five-year-old Johnson suffered scalding burns to his hands, arms and face while working on top of a water box condenser.

Survived by his spouse Anna Costa, daughters Iole and Gidia, son Andrea John, the forty-eight-year-old Italian immigrant was buried at St. Mary Cemetery in Cook County.

Michael J. O’Brien, a Boiler Mechanic with twenty-nine years of service was working from a sitting position on a scaffold with his legs hanging over the side on Wednesday November 29, 1950.

Centerville Scott, a Boiler Cleaner with thirty-one years of service, was killed because of a twelve foot fall through an opening in the grating on Monday November 30, 1953.

The sixty-year-old World War I veteran who had served in the 816th U.S. Pioneer Infantry was buried at Lincoln Cemetery in Cook County.

Crawford Station was closed in 2012 because owner Midwest Generation determined that the needed environmental retrofits to meet federal air standards were financially impractical.

"Some of the guys were hurting financially, that's why we voted to go back to work," said Tom O'Reilly, Ass't Business Manager for Local 15.

The case was transferred to the NLRB in May 2002 and in September 2004, by a 2–1 panel vote, the George W. Bush-appointed Board found that Midwest Generation had not violated the NLRA.

With respect to the remedy, the Seventh Circuit directed the Board to consider whether the lockout coerced the employees into accepting the contract offer, thereby voiding the agreement.

In March 2008, the Board accepted the Seventh Circuit's remand and ordered that the employees who were locked out be made whole for the period of the lockout.

[13][14][15][16] Mayor Lori Lightfoot issued a stop work order, and a class action lawsuit was filed on behalf of residents whose health may have been harmed.

[6] In 2005, the U.S. Department of Energy funded a mercury control project to test Activated Carbon Injection technology at Crawford Station.