Some might not know about the senior citizen apartments on East Alamo Street, which is a community in itself for dozens of elderly and disabled people.
Senior Citizens Aid Inc. is a nonprofit agency with a mission to provide clean, affordable, low-rent housing for people over the age of 62 or with disabilities. This facility allows its residents to be independent and have a community where they look out for each other. In the 60’s and 70’s, a group of women of color and the NAACP decided to sue the City of Elgin and the school board for changes in representation and ...