This story follows several Chicago-area residents who moved to North Dakota during the oil rush to work in the fields near Williston. I spent some time in the town and then hired a small plane to photograph oil rigs and fracking operations across the Bakken oil fields.
Andy Turco, photographed in March 2013, after a 12-hour shift on an oil rig near Williston, N.D. He returned home in mid-2014 after the oil glut put him out of work there. He died of a heroin overdose at the family home in Kenosha in October 2015. © 2013 Chicago Tribune.
