Since 1981, when residents began moving into Village Woods Retirement Community, thousands of senior citizens have come to the sprawling former Holiday Inn near Crete to spend their later years. Now, three months after the announcement Village Woods will close, the doors to that campus are locked, rooms are emptied and the lights are shut off. Missing from the building are the 84 residents and .
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