Jesse White - Illinois Secretary of State

No one likes to wait. It's a hurry-up world.

But eventually the waiting line shrinks, the traffic jams clear, the e-mail arrives, the phone call comes, and our lives go on as usual.

There are those, however, for whom the waiting is stressful, painful. They know they can't wait much longer, because each day that passes without help brings them closer to death.

They are the 4,500 people in Illinois who are on the waiting list for an organ transplant.