Article: Illinois briefs

Family speaks at death penalty hearing

CHICAGO - Family members of the seven people killed at a suburban Chicago restaurant 16 years ago are getting their chance to tell the second man convicted in the murders what he's done to their lives.

Jurors are hearing testimony in the penalty phase of James Degorski's trial.

Diane Clayton's 31-year-old son, Marcus Nellsen, was among those killed at the Brown's Chicken and Pasta restaurant in Palatine in 1993. In emotional testimony Thursday, Clayton talked about the impact her son's death had and how he didn't get to see his daughter grow up.

Nellsen's daughter had a child this year, and Clayton told Degorski her son "would have been so proud, but ...

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