![]() ![]() ![]() Approximately five miles of streets and two bridges serve the grounds. The Home also has its own publication and television station.Īll utility systems water, sewer, gas, electricity, telephone, and data networks are owned and maintained by the Home. It is equipped with its own post office, bank, assembly hall, guest house, mini post exchange, chapel, cemetery, lake, animal park, museum, and several military-related historical sites. The facility is comprised of over 25 buildings totaling just under one million gross square feet and sits upon 210 beautiful acres on the northern edge of Quincy. The Home has often been labeled as "the city within the city" because of its size and unique set up. Over 70 of the 102 counties in Illinois are represented within the current membership. Today, nearly 450 members call the facility home. The peak of membership was reached in 1909, when there were 1,654 members. The Home is the largest and oldest veterans home of the four in Illinois and one of the larger and older veterans homes in the country. (The name was changed in June, 1973, to the "Illinois Veterans Home at Quincy" On October 19th of that same year, the Illinois Soldiers' and Sailors' Home was formally dedicated. On June 1, 1886, GovernorRichard Oglesby decided on Quincy as the site of the new home. In 1885, the 34th Illinois General Assembly passed legislation to establish a soldiers' and sailors' home for disabled Illinois veterans of the Mexican and Civil Wars. ![]()
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