美 國 芝 城 中 華 會 館
Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association of Chicago
(Chinese Community Center)
250 West 22nd Place, Chicago, Illinois 60616, USA. Phone: 312.225.6198 - Fax: 312.225.1155
email: ccbachicago@comcast.net

2023 SERVICES GUIDE


(I) EDUCATION:
1. Chinese Language School – This is a nonprofit Chinese language schools started in 1907. Our mission is to deliver quality education to help students learning Chinese language. Our students can achieve successful communication, vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, sentence structures, cultural knowledge, conversational and intercultural communication skills. School boards seek donations from local businesses, institutions, and individuals serving both the Chinese community and mainstream American society. All teachers are proficient and experienced. The course based on each student's goal and level. We'll keep the lessons interesting and easy to learn. The lessons are fun and practical. The teacher designed different types of exercises to teach students speak Mandarin or Cantonese as much as possible. Grammar exercises, presentations and writing practices help to improve students' Chinese level in full aspects. With the use of Chinese movies, popular Chinese songs to help our student have the chance to know the culture and learn from it. Our school now has about 200 children in 13 classes, held in three classrooms every weekend at different hours.
2. Dancing Classes for Seniors
(II) SOCIAL/COMMUNITY SERVICES:
1. Health Fair – Health fairs provide an opportunity for the seniors to improve their health awareness and self-care practices. Encouraging healthy lifestyle and preventive health care have the potential to reduce medical costs. Each year, Chinese Community Center clinic and a group of medical students from Northwestern University sponsor a health fair event. We are offering on-site free health screenings for local residents of all ages. Experienced doctors, nurses and medical students perform blood pressure screenings, cholesterol and blood sugar screenings, dental care, acupuncture and chiropractic.
2. Flu-Shots – As flu season approached every year, Chinese Community Center will work with the City of Chicago, Department of Public Health Immunization Program, to give free flu-shots to citizens of all ages.
(III) SENIOR SERVICES:
1. Longevity Senior Center of CCBA – The Center has many free services include birthday parties, senior exercise class, singing and dancing groups, etc. From time to time, it also provides free health checkup, government benefit checkup, and educational/ informational talks of various topics.

2. Golden Diners Program, Volunteer Home Delivery Meals and Take Home Dinner– Funded by the City of Chicago, Department of Family Support Services/IDOA, Chinese Community Center provide well-balanced meals for elderly people Monday through Saturday. Many older adults do not want to eat alone. The Golden Diners Program offers them (adults over 60 years of age) a way to get a healthy, hot, nutritious and authentic Chinese meal each day and enjoy the company of friends. Our menus are developed to meet the demands of the Chinese older adult populations, with nutritional concerns and cost considerations to them. We submit a seasonal cycle menu to the Chicago Department of Family and Support Services for approval. These menus strictly follow the meal pattern developed by Illinois Department on Aging and conform to the current Dietary Guidelines for American. The Volunteer Home Delivery Meals Program is to deliver the lunches to the doors of those elderly who have difficulties in movement and have trouble cooking. Starting 2009, we also provide “Take Home Dinner” for the seniors. In addition to enjoying a meal with friends and neighbors, seniors can participate in the many activities scheduled at the sites. For instance, health education sessions, exercise classes, and outings are offered by our center.
3. RTA Senior Ride Free Smart Card application – In January of 2008, the Illinois Legislature passed a new law that allows seniors 65 and older living in the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) area--Cook, DuPage, Mc Henry, and Will counties--to ride free on fixed routes. This includes The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), Metra and Pace. Chinese Community Center helps the seniors to do the applications RTA Senior Ride Free Smart Cards at our community center. Qualified seniors aged 65 and over are free to apply. Chinese seniors can do their applications in their own language.
(IV) CULTURAL EVENTS, FESTIVITIES AND CELEBRATIONS – Chinatown Special Events:
Double Ten Parade – The Double Ten Parades are usually held on the first weekend of October by us to celebrate the founding day of the Republic of China, the first democratic republic in Asia, found by Dr. Sun Yat Sen on October 10, 1911.
(V) SERVICES OF CHINESE CEMETERY: Chinese Community Center offers low budget services (grave lots and headstones engraved in Chinese) to meet the local Chinese’s needs for their resting places at Mount Auburn Memorial Park. It also provides convenience for the living to visit and pay respect to the deceased. The grave lots can be purchased in advance for themselves.

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