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Downsize your life, not your lifestyle

Thinking of downsizing? More aging Americans are. The main reason: Simplicity. The home where they raised a family has more space than they need now, and caring for it has…

Costs of Owning a House vs. a Life Plan Community

If you’re on the fence about the costs of Independent Living at Smith Village, it can be helpful to compare it to what you’re spending now. When you add in…

Smith Crossing and Smith Village voted Best Assisted Living in Daily Southtown's Best of Chicago's Southland 2021

Welcome to the Daily Southtown’s 2021 Best of the Chicago’s Southland reader’s choice balloting results. Daily Southtown readers selected their favorite businesses in almost 100 categories in the first round…

Smith Senior Living residents embrace life

Smith Senior Living enriches lives by creating communities where older adults thrive. That's been the not-for-profit's mission since 1924. While Smith Crossing in Orland Park and Smith Village in Chicago's…

Community news: Smith Village in Beverly adds 3-story addition

Smith Village, 2320 W. 113th Place, Chicago, held an event to sign the center steel column on the top floor of its 10,024-square-foot, 3-story addition to the Johanson Wing, which…

Veterans get valentines from seniors, students

Multigenerational Cupids are completed works of art, filled gift bags and recorded a singalong at Smith Village and St. Cajetan School. Their goal is to brighten the lives of 33…

Generations Connect at Smith Village

Ten culinary students at Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences didn't let COVID stop them from organizing a popular annual Thanksgiving feast for 300 seniors who live in Chicago's Beverly,…

Special Valentines for Veterans from Chicago Students

Chicago-area veterans will be feeling the love this Valentine’s Day, thanks to some local cupids. Students at Saint Cajetan School are teaming up with residents at Smith Village Senior Center…

Vaccine Distribution at Smith Village

Beverly Resident Marks 20 Years with Smith Senior Living

While in his senior year at Marist High School in 1992, Kevin McGee, now president and CEO of Smith Senior Living, visited his grandmother, Helen O'Connor, at Washington and Jane…