03.17.10

Durbin Announces a More than $600,000 VA Grant for Quincy Veterans Facility

[WASHINGTON, D.C.] – Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-IL) today announced that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has awarded a $643,500 grant to the State of Illinois. This funding will be used to assist the construction of a bus and ambulance garage at the State Veterans Home in Quincy, Illinois.  The Quincy State Veterans Home, founded in 1886, is the largest and oldest of Illinois’ Veterans Homes. The Home provides a broad range of facilities and services including skilled and Alzheimer’s unit care to more than 600 veterans and their spouses.