The Price is Right Especially if it’s free!!! The Association Jeanne Jugan (AJJ) sponsored an afternoon of shopping for our Residents. Each Resident was given a handful of chips to use to purchase a myriad of items. From jewelry to clothes, statues and pictures to trinkets, the auditorium was filled […]

St. Joseph Home for the Holidays Wine Tasting Fine wine, great food and good friends, what more could you ask for? A record crowd filled our auditorium for our annual St. Joseph’s Home for the Holidays Wine Tasting. With many thanks to Larry Kaplan of the Wine Cellar who sponsored […]

Veterans Day Celebration On Monday November 12, employees from Loberg Construction observed Veterans Day with a morning of volunteering at Little Sisters of the Poor in Palatine, IL. The team of volunteers served a delicious lunch, and visited with the veterans living and volunteering there. Honored attendees were: Bob Guretz, […]

Happy 100th Birthday, Gertrude! On November 3, surrounded by family and friends, Gertrude Koslowski celebrated her 100th Birthday!!! Gertrude was born in Chicago at St. Mary’s Hospital, 8 days before World War I ended. She had 3 brothers and one sister and is the first one in 4 generations of […]

Saints and Goblins On October 31, Halloween – All Hallows Eve, our day was filled with delightful goblins and ended with the beautiful meditation of saints. In the morning, the adorable costumed kindergarten and 5th grade students, along with their teachers from St. Theresa School, ‘treated us’ to a show […]

A Living Source of Hope Nine years ago, on October 11, 2009, thousands of pilgrims from around the world, including a group from our Home, gathered in St. Peter’s Basilica and at St. Peter’s Square for the Canonization of our foundress, Jeanne Jugan. Although our everyday lives separated us by […]