By Patrick Ferrell

"JOLIET -- Congressional candidate Debbie Halvorson Thursday joined the growing roar to turn the soon-to-be-vacated Silver Cross campus into a veterans' hospital and recruited an influential cheerleader to help.

"As a mother whose stepson is currently in harm's way as a special forces soldier in Afghanistan, and as a legislator with a strong record of making veterans' issues a top priority, I strongly support the idea of using Silver Cross's facility here in Joliet to create a new VA hospital for veterans in the region," Halvorson told a group of veterans at an event with Steny Hoyer, a Maryland congressman who serves as House Majority Leader."

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