Personal Life
Ryan married Marie, a high school sweetheart, and had six children.
In 1996, Jim Ryan was diagnosed with Stage 2 non-Hodgkin lymphoma and began chemotherapy. In January 1997, the youngest of Jim and Marie Ryan's six children, 12-year-old Anne Marie, collapsed and died of a brain tumor. In October 1997, Marie Ryan suffered what appeared to be a near-fatal heart attack as the couple walked near their home; the cause turned out to be a rare virus.
On October 8, 2007, Elmhurst police found Ryan's son Patrick Ryan dead inside their home as the result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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