Where a manufacturer releases a product knowing that it is commonly modified in a way that creates a dangerous condition, that modification is reasonably foreseeable and the manufacturer may be strictly liable unless the manufacturer takes steps to avoid the dangerous condition being created.The 1st District Appellate Court reversed and remanded a decision from Cook County Circuit Judge John H. Ehrlich.East Manufacturing Corp. manufactures and sells dump trailers, selling an average of 1,200 each year for the last 40 years …