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Wed, 01/30/2013 - 3:11pm

Ex-Ill. governor returns home after prison release Associated Press Copyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 4:00 pm, Wednesday, January 30, 2013 CHICAGO (AP) — Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan was released from prison before dawn Wednesday, stopping only briefly at a halfway house before he was allowed to travel home to serve the rest of his sentence for corruption. By midday, the 78-year-old was sitting in the living room of his spacious home in a leafy northern Illinois neighborhood in Kankakee beaming and surrounded by his children and grandchildren, said Ryan's attorney and also a former governor, Jim Thompson. Ryan, a Republican, served five-plus behind bars for multiple corruption convictions, walking out of his federal prison in Terre Haute, Ind.

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