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NewsColony Illinois coronavirus: Veterans Affairs-linked COVID-19 cases in IL among highest nationwide CHICAGO (WLS) — The Veterans Health Administration is the nation’s largest healthcare network and tonight the I-Team is investigating COVID-19 case data that shows hundreds of Illinois VA patients are battling the virus. Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, headquartered on Chicago’s West Side cares for 60,000 local veterans through their main hospital and neighborhood clinics. It is the VA facility in Illinois that has been hardest hit by COVID-19: 180 infection cases here and 12 deaths. An I-Team data analysis shows the increasing impact of COVID-19 at Veterans Administration facilities nationwide. As of Wednesday, VA facilities nationwide report 5742 cases of coronavirus and 372 deaths linked to the virus. While the 446 cases at Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care Systems in New Orleans is the most in the country, Chicago’s Jesse Brown VA facility ranks fifth nationwide in all ...