The Chicago home will be Illinois’ fifth state-run long-term care facility for veterans. Among the four existing facilities, the nearest one to Chicago is about 50 miles south in Manteno. The state’s management of the facilities during the Rauner administration came under scrutiny after a 2015 outbreak of Legionella bacteria at the Illinois Veterans Home in Quincy. Since then, 14 people have died and 70 others have been sickened at the facility, which opened in 1886. A resident of the state veterans home in Manteno died in January after contracting Legionnaire’s disease.