Illinois family welcomes identical triplets

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Monday, December 22, 2014
A Murphy family is celebrating their new family additions, three of them in the form of identical triplets.
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ST. CHARLES, Ill. -- 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.

PHOTOS: Identical triplets born to St. Charles family

James, Jonathan, and Timothy remained in ICU Sunday night.

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

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