A history-making kidney transplant chain involving 60 people across the country had two important links in the Chicago area.

The 30 donors and the people they helped didn’t know each other and were brought together by a computer match program developed by the National Kidney Registry.

Paulette Behan of West Chicago was number 12 in the chain of recipients. Don Terry of Joliet was number 30, the final link in what is considered the world’s longest living-donor kidney transplant chain.

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