Discovered Treasure Trove Shows That Danish Home Resident’s Love Story Came True It’s like a Nicholas Sparks love story, and a Hallmark movie all rolled into one, with the added bonus that it’s all true. Maddie Hopkins, a resident of Wicker Park, went antiquing earlier this spring and wandered into Lost Eras, an antique shop…
Launched in 2018, The Danish Home Foundation’s $10.5 million “Our Future in Focus” Capital Campaign for physical improvements to our building and increased charitable care has made significant progress. Generous friends and sponsors of The Danish Home of Chicago have buttressed our plans for the future, and we are ever grateful to them. Even amidst…
We all “get by with a little help from our friends.” At The Danish Home of Chicago, a boutique retirement community in Norwood Park, friends provided more than a little help when busy staff needed it most. Fortunate to have personal ties to trained medical professionals, nursing staff at The Danish Home gratefully enlisted their…
Eivind Torske walks with the limp he’s had since childhood, when he was stricken with polio as a young boy. It is only fitting, then, that the 88-year-old Norwegian-born resident of The Danish Home of Chicago was first to receive the COVID-19 vaccine when it came to the boutique senior living community in January. A…
The Danish Home of Chicago is resurrecting an old practice to address a new challenge. Since the pandemic has prohibited residents of the boutique senior living community in Norwood Park from visiting with the volunteers they’re used to seeing on a regular basis, they’re exchanging cards and letters with them instead – a good, old-fashioned…
The Danish Home of Chicago and The Danish Home Foundation are proud to announce that “Dronning Margrethes and Prins Henriks Fond” (Queen Margrethe’s and Prince Henrik’s Foundation) in Denmark has awarded a generous grant to The Danish Home Foundation’s “Our Future in Focus” capital campaign. The Danish royal foundation supports cultural, scientific and social purposes in the…
The Danish Home of Chicago is often described as “a boutique senior living community nestled in the historic neighborhood of Norwood Park.” But, as anyone associated with the community will attest, the 130-year-old edifice is so much more. Extending the boundaries of outstanding care for older adults, The Danish Home is a cultural touchpoint rooted…
For many, the prospect of holding an event “online only” that traditionally occurs in swanky digs with fine food, cocktails and first-class entertainment would be daunting. But the Danish Home Foundation’s annual fundraiser on September 19 wasn’t the boutique senior community’s first virtual rodeo, so to speak. In May, the 129-year-old community nestled in the…
“I was so extremely excited to see my mom in person! Physical presence is so important,” said Sue Santucci, who hadn’t seen her mother, Mary, face-to-face since February. Until just over a month ago, friends and relatives of residents at The Danish Home of Chicago, a boutique senior community in Norwood Park, had to make…
“I always get my best ideas when I’m hiking,” said Bruce Bro, seasoned climber and new board member of The Danish Home Foundation. One in particular came to him on a trek in early spring: hike the 500-mile Colorado Trail as a “Hike for Danish America” fundraiser benefiting Danish-American organizations across the country. Beginning June…