Milestone, Inc. Milestone was founded by James P. Hamilton in , opening up a residential home for intellectually and developmentally disabled adults in an apartment on Kishwaukee Street, the first residential care program of its kind in Illinois.
In Milestone developed a Supported Living Arrangement for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities that resided in their own apartments, once again the first program of its kind in Illinois. Nineteen seventy-nine was an historical year at Milestone as we opened Elmwood Heights, a highly specialized residential community created under a special grant from the state of Illinois for adults with severe physical and intellectual and developmental disabilities.
We created a comfortable, home-like atmosphere while providing around-the-clock medical supervision. Today Milestone serves as many as 96 individuals on the Elmwood Heights campus.
In addition, in Milestone also opened apartments for physically and intellectually and developmentally disabled adults which served as a model for developers to accommodate this previously unserved and underserved population.
In Milestone initiated the construction of our first adult group home in the Rockford community. These group homes serve individuals in a home-like setting scattered throughout the city.
