Ignatia House Women's Recovery Home

About this Recovery Home

Ignatia House, Chicago, Illinois, is a sober living home for women in Cook County, operating from West Belmont Avenue on the city's north side.

Who Lives at Ignatia House

Ignatia House accepts women only. That single restriction settles a question many people weigh first when they compare recovery housing: every housemate and every shared space in the residence is women's. For a woman new to sobriety, the makeup of the household is one variable already decided.

Women Helping Women In Recovery

Ignatia House sums up its approach in four words on its own site: Women Helping Women In Recovery. The phrase puts peer relationships between the women of the house at the center of the program. Ignatia House describes communal living as an environment that empowers women in their recovery and encourages the development of tools to flourish in their lives as sober people.

A Small Group Setting Rather Than a Facility

Ignatia House runs as a small group living arrangement, which the house presents as a healing and supportive space where each resident can begin her recovery journey. Scale matters to a resident: a small household keeps the home closer to a shared apartment than to an institution.

Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings on Site

Members of the house attend AA meetings hosted at Ignatia House and meetings out in the community. Meetings held at Ignatia are open to all, so the room a woman walks into in her first week is shared with the wider recovery community rather than closed to the household.

Cost, and the Foundation That Makes It Possible

Ignatia House is committed to never turning a potential resident away based solely on her inability to pay. That policy rests on the Ignatia Foundation, which is run by a volunteer board of directors and exists solely to fund Ignatia House. A woman weighing recovery residences in Chicago can read that as the house's own published position on what admission turns on.

West Belmont Avenue and Cook County

West Belmont Avenue runs east and west through the dense north-side grid, which is one reason sober living in Chicago, Illinois works here without a car: bus and rail service, employers and Cook County recovery housing resources are reachable on foot or by transit. Women comparing sober living options in Chicago will find Ignatia House defined by its women-only household and its published position on cost.

Life unfolds and blossoms when we find happiness inside of ourselves instead of trying to find a synthetic joy.  Sober fun is authentic and it has shown us how to live a life worth living.  We are a Recovery House that believes in the 12 Steps as a way of life.  We have found family is not always the one you have been born into, our family has been created by the many people who have passed through the doors of Ignatia's House.