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The Starved Rock killer is expected to get out of prison next week after the Illinois attorney general opted not to try to keep him up locked up indefinitely.
SPRINGFIELD — Chester Weger, Illinois’ longest serving prisoner, has been denied parole for the 20th time. Weger, now 76, was convicted in 1961 of killing Lillian Oetting of Riverside while she and ...