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Jailed Ex-IL Governor Asks to Visit Gravely Ill Wife
KANKAKEE, Ill. (AP) -- Family members of imprisoned former Illinois Governor George Ryan are waiting for a federal appeals court to decide whether Ryan should be allowed to join them at his hospitalized wife's bedside.

Ryan's attorneys filed an emergency motion Wednesday asking that the 76-year-old former governor be let out of prison so he can be with his wife of 55 years. Lura Lynn Ryan is in intensive care suffering complications from chemotherapy.

Attorneys also have appealed to prison authorities to release Ryan under a program allowing inmates temporary leave to visit gravely ill family members.

The former governor has served three years of a 6 1/2-year sentence on convictions of racketeering, conspiracy, tax fraud and making false statements to the FBI.

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