Zahrah Hill, a foreman and plumber from the West Side, returned to her construction job three months after giving birth to her son and, as a breastfeeding mother, she didn’t have a space to safely express milk.
In a matter of months, female construction workers like Hill and others who lactate or menstruate won’t have that same problem under a state law Gov. JB Pritzker signed last month.
It’s the culmination of a legislative push in Springfield to make the state’s predominantly male construction industry embrace a new level of diversity that hasn’t existed since Chicago was credited as the place that invented skyscrapers…