Illinois family welcomes identical triplets

ST. CHARLES, Illinois -- An Illinois couple is celebrating their new family additions, three of them in the form of identical triplets.

The three baby boys were born one month premature on Friday at Central DuPage Hospital.

James, Jonathan, and Timothy remain in the ICU.

Proud parents James and Brandy Murphy from St. Charles also have a fourth son, 2-year-old Thomas.

This is the second known birth of naturally-conceived identical triplets in the Chicago area in the last two months. The chances of naturally conceiving identical triplets is one in a million.

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