A defibrillator in every public building goal of state officials

CHAMPAIGN – Chances are, you've walked by dozens of these little boxes in public places and never noticed them.

Chances are you might even have to use one of them yourself one day – especially if you're in Illinois, a state aiming to make automated external defibrillators as common as fire extinguishers.

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