Health Concerns about brain cancer cases in Piatt County grow, but Illinois public health agency yet to investigate Lessie Ann Patterson lived in Monticello, Illinois, for 25 years before dying in 2015 from glioblastoma, a rapidly advancing brain cancer with an average survival time of 12 to 18 By Molly Hughes, Stephanie Orellana and Nazala Salauddin, for Investigate Midwest / 17 Mar 2025