Dear Neighbor,

 Skyline Village Chicago is all about connecting with neighbors and friends. During the holidays, we don’t take a vacation from this important mission. We recognize that many of us may be alone or may simply seek to connect with old friends or make new friends in the neighborhood.

Join us at Skyline’s Lucky Penny lunches on November 22 and December 27 and help us celebrate the twentieth anniversary of our Holiday Sing Along on December 8. Thank you to Skyline member Jana Vander Lee for her kind and gracious letter reprinted here.

Dear Skyline Village Chicago, Board Members and members,

Thank you for a year of excellent programs, music rehearsals, a Faith Ringgold commentary adventure, meaningful Salon discussions and friendly faces to share the journey of aging gracefully.

I look forward to another new year of growing old. Ingrid Bergman said, "Growing old is like climbing a mountain. You may get a little short of breath, but the view is better." Sincerely, Jana

This says it all, and makes all our efforts feel worthwhile!

Congratulations to us all.  

Women's Salon

LUCKY PENNY LUNCHES

What’s with Chicago’s Budget? Let's Talk About It.

 Friday, November 22, 2024

1:00-2:00 pm

Eggs Cafe, 680 N. Lake Shore Drive

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WBEZ, 10/30/2024: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson pitches a $300 million property tax increase to help close a massive budget hole. “We’re a billion dollars in the hole, and this guy’s acting as if all we have to do is just go and squeeze taxpayers more and more. Taxpayers expect us to manage their expenses. This mayor hasn’t done that,” said Ald. Brendan Reilly, 42nd Ward.

“There’s ways to work with the unions to find some givebacks that they’re comfortable with,” said Ald. Brian Hopkins (2nd), Johnson’s handpicked chair of the Public Safety Committee. “There’s ways to bring the unions on board with some workforce reductions that don’t necessarily affect members. We still have a lot of vacancies that could potentially be eliminated where you’re not actually touching jobs that are filled.”



“Property values have increased, and that’s being reflected on these reassessment notices,” Hopkins added. “People are already primed for a tax rebellion. You’re going to come into that environment with a significant property tax increase proposal? It’s folly.”

Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel

Friday December 27, 2024

1:00-2:00 pm

Eggs Cafe, 680 N. Lake Shore Drive

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Michigan Avenue at Delaware Place, Chicago

Fridays at 12:10 p.m., in person in the Sanctuary or online at

www.bit.ly/fpcvideos 

• November 8, 2024, Ondřej Horňas, organ
• November 15, 2024, Black Moon Trio(Piano, French horn, violin)
• November 22, 2024 Jeremy Vigil and Florence Mak, piano
• December 6, 2024 Varo String Quartet Cosponsored by Musicians Club of Women
• December 13, 2024 James Mellichamp, organ
• December 20, 2024 Lux Cantorum Choir
• December 27, 2024 Fourth Church Interim Organist

65 East Huron Street

Saturday, November 9, 2024, at 7:30 p.m.

Chicago Bar Association Orchestra & Chorus

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Monday, December 9, 7:00 p.m.

Tallis Scholars

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Saturday, December 15, 7:30 p.m.

Apollo’s Fire - Messiah

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Mindfulness Meditation

Every Monday and every Friday,

11:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m. (Zoom) Free

Contact Regan Burke regan.burke@gmail.com for Zoom link

Old School Office Hours

Center for Life & Learning at The Gratz Center

126 East Chestnut St. Chicago

Monthly Book Group, Second Tuesday of the month, 2:30-3:30 pm (Zoom) FREE. Registration Link

All are welcome for lively and thought-provoking discussions each month led by Alan Bath. Books and dates:

September 10- The Winners by Fredrik Backman

October 8- The Tyranny of Merit by Michael J Sandel

November 12- The Five-Star Weekend by Elin Hilderbrand

December 10- The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT and the Fight for Women in Science by Kate Zernike

Matters of Health

Thursdays, September 12-December 5, 11:30-12:30 p.m. (Hybrid)

FREE. Registration Link

What impacts our ability to age in the best way possible for each of us? This weekly series will provide resources to answer questions about aging well. Each week will feature a presenter who will discuss healthy aging in one of these categories: physical health, mental health, social health, spiritual health, or financial health. Register for the whole series and receive the full list of topics and a weekly email listing the topic and presenter for that week.

Addressing Ageism

A Conversation with author and speaker Ashton Applewhite.

11:00 am - 11:45 am

Friday, November 8, 2024

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From childhood on, we’re barraged by messages that it’s sad to be old. That wrinkles are embarrassing, and old people inept. Author and activist Ashton Applewhite believed them too, until she figured out where this prejudice comes from and the damage it does.

Applewhite explores the roots of ageism—in society and in our own age denial—and how it divides and diminishes us. An internationally recognized expert on ageism, Ashton Applewhite is the author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism, voice of Yo, Is This Ageist?, and a co-founder of the Old School Anti-Ageism Clearinghouse. She speaks widely at venues that have included the United Nations and the TED mainstage, and is at the forefront of the emerging movement to raise awareness of ageism and make age a criterion for diversity. In 2022 the United Nations named Ashton one of the Healthy Aging 50: fifty leaders transforming the world to be a better place to grow older.

Medicare Updates to Your Prescription Drugs

Thursday, October 24

with Dr. Victoria Russo and Danielle Riley

Chicago Department of Senior Services

Access Video HERE

Pastor Joe Morrow: The Nature of Civic Responsibility

Friday, October 25

Joe Morrow is associate pastor for evangelism and community engagement at Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago. Joe Morrow presented his origin story as a lead-in to why he's called into the work of civic life. He challenges us to ponder these questions.

• What happens when the church, synagogue, temple or nonprofit down the street agrees about the nature of a problem, but feels its own tradition bars it from addressing the problem in the same ways you would?
• How do we respond when we see someone bringing salt and light into a neighborhood, when their ecclesiology differs from ours, restricting who fills what kinds of leadership roles? What theology allows us to cooperate with or work separately from such persons and communities?
• Is there ever a time to put down our discussions of religion or traditions in order to build viable coalitions that effectively tackle the problems of the world?
• Are there times when our faith needs to question or ask others to question political or economic claims that have essentially become articles of faith?
• What is the nature of forgiveness? Can it be achieved in this lifetime?

Center for Life and Learning 4th Presbyterian Church: Website

Mesulam Center for Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease: website

Rush Generations Center for Excellence in Aging:  Website

Streeterville Organization for Active Residents: Website 

The Chicago Covenants Project: Website

What's Cookin'

Turkeys Were Immigrants Too

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Talkin’ Turkey.

Know how the turkey got its name? In English, that is? The French call it “dinde” or “dindon,” a squishing together of “coq d’Inde,” or “chicken from India,” which is where everyone thought it came from because that is where Columbus thought he was going. Hardly anyone calls it “turkey” except we English speakers, confused perhaps on the original receiving end because the British thought that much from the East was exotic and no more alien place there was than the country Turkey.



But to beat all, the Portuguese call it a “peru” and even Turks talking Turkish call the turkey a “hindi”—their way, I guess, of saying “d’Inde.”

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