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There’s renewed hope that a partially finished veterans home on the southwest corner of Forest Preserve Drive and Oak Park Avenue will be completed after the project sat idle for the past year.
A budget deal reached by state lawmakers last month provides the state’s $8.5 million obligation of the $70.5 million price tag of the facility, which had been slated to open this month before the state’s budget impasse stopped the construction timeline last summer.
The five-story, 200-room long-term health care facility is supposed to be Chicago’s first long-term care center for vets. A groundbreaking ceremony was attended by state lawmakers in September 2014 to celebrate the start of construction, which began the following month and continued until June of last year.
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