What is Lincoln Park Village?
Lincoln Park Village is part of a burgeoning national movement--a grassroots not-for-profit membership community made up of people 50+ who share a commitment to creating new ways to live well while living longer. With one phone call or mouse click, members have access to a full range of activities, events and services--all delivered with customized attention and designed to build strong neighbor-to-neighbor connections and friendships. The Member-Plus Program ensures that residents of modest means can join the Village and have funds for services. Serving Chicago's Lake View, Lincoln Park and Near North communities, Lincoln Park Village is a unique resource--professional, yet neighborly and close by--available to you right now and as your needs change.
Explore our website. Click here, to learn more about our history. Help build and strengthen our neighborhoods and community. Call us! Join us!
A 360-degree view of aging in America with our Village front and center
Click here to see the full News21 Brave Old World series beginning with DIY (Do it yourself) Senior Living, which is one of the five themes featuring Lincoln Park Village. Be sure to click on the interactive map and experience a month in the life of our Village, with 14 member / volunteer vignettes, 4 of which include short videos.
Or . . . if you just can't wait to see the 4 videos, click on any of the 4 links below.
Give Help, Get Help from Our Future Selves on Vimeo.
Volunteer First from Our Future Selves on Vimeo.
Call For A Handyman from Our Future Selves on Vimeo.
Weekly Workout from Our Future Selves on Vimeo.
News21 is an investigative reporting consortium of the nation's leading journalism schools. In June, a News21 team spent six days with the Village in Chicago—and with our members in their homes and at programs and events—gathering material for stories to be sent to media outlets around the country. The New York Times blog, "The New Old Age," was the first media outlet to post an article and video.
How did News21 get to us in the first place? One of its reporting teams (at Columbia University in New York) was focusing on growing old in America – they dubbed it "Brave Old World." They saw the Villages article in the May/June AARP The Magazine and decided that Lincoln Park Village was a prime representative of the aging in community movement.
Lincoln Park Village featured in Chicago Life Magazine
Don't miss the fall issue of Chicago Life Magazine featuring Lincoln Park Village. It was inserted in subscribers' Saturday, August 20 issue of the Wall Street Journal and the Sunday, August 21 New York Times. Click here to read the article on page 24.
Lincoln Park Village featured on New York Times New Old Age Blog
To read the article, click here.
Lincoln Park Village featured in national magazine!
If you haven't seen the May/June issue of AARP The Magazine, you can read their excellent feature on the Village movement, including our own Lincoln Park Village here.
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Gift Cards
Amazon Gift Cards make great gifts and benefit the Village!
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Services
These services are your individualized access to anything you may need to make living in your own home easy, pleasant and safe.
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Events
The village offers members a great variety of events that range from educational to eclectic, tai chi to thai food. There is a lot going on at LPV. You are most welcome here.
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Village Store
When you do your shopping via the Village link to Amazon, a portion of what you spend will go to support the Village.
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Join
Begin taking advantage of all the opportunities that make aging well in the city easier. We have all the information and forms you need, right here on this website. Or, if you want to speak with someone, just call the office.
