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An adult day care center that will give older adults opportunities to exercise, do art projects, go on outings and share memories from their pasts opened on Monday at the Oak Park Arms retirement community. The facility, located on the fifth floor of the Arms where the Senior Services Center used to be, will provide […]

Older gentlemen playing bridge at the Oak Park Arms is nothing out of the ordinary – unless, of course, they are Hollywood actors. A patio room in the quaint retirement home was transformed into a television-show set earlier this month for the filming of the new ABC legal drama, “Doubt.” The pilot episode by David

The residents and staff have organized free events to celebrate Seniors’ Week, from May 16 through May 23, at the retirement community, 408 S. Oak Park Ave. The month of May is Older Americans Month. As a result, a variety of communities in the Chicago area have proclaimed the week of May 16-23, as “Celebrating

A TV segment from CBS 2 Chicago titled, “Helping our Aging Veterans” was shot at the Oak Park Arms Retirement Community with several senior residents who served in the military.

They’ve been acting together for years, but the day to day stresses of work and life have kept them out of the theater. 10 years ago, Pam Turlow and her husband Ben Dooley saw an opportunity. After her father had checked into the Oak Park Arms Retirement Community, they thought about putting on a show.

Players on both sides of the chess boards were left surprised Friday afternoon when members of Whittier School’s Starry Knights chess club squared off against residents of the Oak Park Arms retirement community. The Starry Knights, made up of kindergarten through fifth grade students from Whittier, 715 N. Harvey, practice every Friday. But some of

I have lived in the Oak Park Arms retirement community at 408 S Oak Park Ave., for two years and three months, and I would like to share with the Wednesday Journal readership the story of some extraordinary assistance — above and beyond the call of duty — that I received about three months ago.