Column: Adequately providing for veterans is a daily commitment – Daily Chronicle (DeKalb)

"As of Sept. 30, 2017, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs said 6.8% of Illinois’ adult population are veterans, (nationally it’s 6.6%). That worked out to 628,254 people...To serve that population there are four inpatient care sites housing more than 800. You might’ve heard of the Quincy home, source of a persistent Legionnaire’s disease outbreak that stained Gov. Bruce Rauner’s administration, or the one in La Salle, where 62 residents (about 34%) and 69 employees had positive COVID-19 tests as of Friday. A 200-bed Chicago facility, started in 2014, is done but unopened because of staffing issues."