Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White congratulated three student winners of the Life Goes On organ donor poster contest in a ceremony at the McKinley Park public library, with the three winners students at Horizon Science Academy - McKinley Park in Chicago s McKinley Park neighborhood.
One year ago, Phillip Hanks was enduring the first of two surgeries. One was almost eight hours to give him a new intestine, stomach, liver and pancreas. The following day, Hanks was back on the operating table to get a kidney.
Phillip Hanks, a Joliet father of six, received a multivisceral transplant a simultaneous transplant of multiple organs at Indiana University Health in Indianapolis in late April 2021. He received a new liver, small and large intestine, stomach, pancreas and kidney. Since then, he's doing well and has become a spokesperson for Jesse White's organ donor campaign, during his last year in office.