About Us
Meet Our Residents
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Sunny
Having grown up on a farm, being out of doors and physically active has always been important to me. At age 85, I now say “Oh, to be sailing and downhill skiing and climbing sand dunes again”. I continue to swim, practice yoga, and bicycle
Charlie & Susan
An accidental encounter at a Catholic singles dance at the Disneyland hotel led to one thing after another. Susan the elementary teacher and Charlie the doctoral student got married.
Heather & Jonathan
Heather and I are both Oak Park bred. We were high school athletes. Although childhood schoolmates, we did not date for 20 years.
Sean & Sheila
Sheila has lived in Oak Park over 40 years and joined the Oak Park Commons Cohousing Community in 2019, along with her spouse Sean. Sean was born in Wisconsin, weaned in Maywood, and is the third generation of his family to live in Oak Park.
Mary Ann
I was fascinated by cohousing when I first heard about it thirty years ago. My husband and I had greatly enjoyed the years we lived in married student housing while he was in grad school.
Anne & Mary
We are midwestern gals: Anne raised in Iowa and Mary on the plains of the Dakotas. We just celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary, after meeting in January 2016.
Nancy
I’m a born and bred Michigander who has been living in Los Angeles for almost thirty years. I’ve been planning to retire early from my librarian job and knew I wanted to relocate to the Chicago area for some time.
Hélène & Sam
He was not a GI, only a noisy ebullient History Professor enjoying some sort of sabbatical interlude in the beautiful city of Paris. Except for this detail though, our encounter, soon followed by Hélène’s departure from the beautiful city to start a new life in the United States, resembles a post World World II romance.
Mike, Susan & Evers
An attempt by Mike’s friend to set him up failed miserably, as he was distracted by the girl down the table talking about science and art, a girl from Michigan by the name of Susan. The common name aside, Mike was intrigued.
Karen & Jon
Karen was born and raised in Florence, SC. Her love of dancing and acting took her to Virginia Commonwealth University to study acting and theater arts. Jon was born in Lowell, MA and grew up in a rural North Carolina mill town.
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Our Location
839 Madison, Oak Park, Il 60304
United States
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708 772-8817
info@oakparkcommons.com