This document describes Illinois' Community Care Program (CCP), a program which provides chore housekeeping, homemaker, and adult day care services to older persons who cannot perform some tasks basic of everyday life without assistance, in order to help them live independently. Case management, information and referral, and nursing home prescreening services also provided by CCP are described. Key events in the history of CCP are listed. Recent initiatives addressing service quality and expansion are discussed including a quality assurance program, emphasis on training, case management standards, CCP rules, demonstration projects testing new services, a review of assistance to Alzheimer's disease victims, demonstration projects in home health and skilled nursing care, and a senior companion program. A directory of planning and service areas in Illinois is included. Comments by older adults served by the program and a short vignette are included. (ABL)