Breese, Illinois

The federal funding for farmers has been terminated under President Donald Trump’s administration. Family farmers in the Metro East now face abrupt uncertainty about how to fund plans they made for their growing businesses.

A federal workplace safety inspectors found Groundworks Contracting of Breese, Illinois, failed to protect workers who were installing storm sewer lines from the risk of trench cave-ins on a least five occasions.

Groundworks Contracting Inc. of Breese, Illinois ignored a city's engineers instruction to use trench cave-in protections, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.