Illinois lawmakers to query Rauner cabinet on Legionnaires'
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January 10, 2018
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Lawmakers demanded Tuesday that Gov. Bruce Rauner's administration deliver a permanent plan for controlling deadly Legionnaires' disease at the Illinois Veterans Home in Quincy.
Illinois Department of Veterans' Affairs Director Erica Jeffries and Dr. Nirav Shah, director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, answered tough questions during a four-hour hearing of the joint House-Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee in Chicago.
It was called to examine the state's response to the disease that contributed to the deaths of 13 facility residents since 2015 and sickened...
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