This week we have a very special guest who will speak about how hopping on a bike is not only good for your overall well-being, it’s also a great way to help make your community a more livable place. Deloris Lucas is known as “the bike lady” in the Riverdale neighborhood on Chicago’s far South Side and has been organizing a community bike ride for the past five years to bring awareness to the transportation needs where she grew up.

Today we have two very special guests who will talk about a real inspiring program that helps those with limited mobility gain more independence and gives them a boost of self-esteem. Peter Goldman is a co-founder of The Judd Goldman Adaptive Sailing Program, which provides on-the-water sailing classes for the physically disabled in Chicago and Patrick LoDuca, who started out as a participant and is now an instructor.

Today we have two very special guests who will talk about a wonderful program that offers art workshops to older Latinos, especially those with Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, or dementia. It’s called La Brocha, which is Spanish for “The Paint Brush.” The workshops are held in Chicago’s Pilsen and Little Village neighborhoods, and participants and their loved ones work on an art program led by artists and art therapists.

In the inaugural episode of Creating the Good with AARP IL, hosts Bob Gallo and Rosanna Márquez sit down with Amy Morton, a restaurateur from Chicago who has seen her world change drastically in the wake of COVID-19.

Hear Bob, Rosanna and Amy discuss how her community involvement came to be, what inspires her and how she hopes others can get involved during these uncertain times.