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(AP) -- One of the longest-serving current members of the Illinois House has died.

78-year-old Wyvetter Younge was taken to the hospital with a bleeding artery earlier this month.  She died Friday night from complications during surgery.  Younge was born in St. Louis.  She represented East St. Louis as a Democrat since 1975.

Her children remember that she drove 90 minutes each way to Springfield every day so she could see them day and night.

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