Community Celebrations: Swissôtel Chicago Receives AccorHotels' Global Bernaches Award

Swissôtel Chicago recently celebrated being selected as a recipient of AccorHotels’ Global Bernaches Team Award for its partnership with SOS Children’s Villages Illinois, a nonprofit that provides a safe, positive and education-focused environment for abandoned children and their foster families in some of Chicago’s highest-crime neighborhoods. Swissôtel Chicago’s SOS outreach initiative began as a fundraising campaign […]

by Will Mendelson

Community Celebrations: Rocco Fiore & Sons' 70th Anniversary

Rocco Fiore & Sons is celebrating its 70th anniversary in 2017. For 70 years, the respected landscaping company has delivered the industry’s best “quality, service and value.” The company began in 1938 when Rocco Fiore Sr. came to America to work for his uncle at the family nursery. In 1947, he established Rocco Fiore & […]

by Will Mendelson

Community Celebrations: Instituto del Progreso Latino Celebrates 40 Years

In April 2017, Instituto del Progreso Latino celebrated four decades of its innovation-providing education and career opportunities to people often underserved by traditional education systems. Working primarily in Chicago’s Latino community, this milestone represents the collective impact of Chicago’s families, business and education leaders, and civic and philanthropic partners supporting tens of thousands of families […]

by Will Mendelson

Community Celebrations: K.I.D.S.S. for Kids Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary

K.I.D.S.S. for Kids, an affiliated organization of Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, will celebrate its 25th anniversary throughout 2017. In January, they hosted their signature event, Aon Step Up for Kids, which raised $750,000 for the Lurie Children’s Department of Family Services. Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago 225 […]

by Will Mendelson

Community Celebrations: Music Institute of Chicago Launches Downtown Campus

The Music Institute of Chicago celebrated its establishment of a new downtown Chicago campus on Jan. 30. The Institute has partnered with Chicago landmark St. James Cathedral to offer lessons Monday-Saturday just one block from “The Magnificent Mile.” The new campus “welcomes all students, including beginners and casual players, as well as advanced musicians,” and […]

by Will Mendelson

Community Celebrations: Writers Theatre Achieves LEED Gold Certification

Writers Theatre celebrated its achievement in LEED Gold certification on Jan. 30 for “implementing practical and measurable strategies and solutions aimed at achieving high performance in sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency, materials selection and indoor environmental quality,” according to the Theatre’s press release. Learn more at usgbc-illinois.org. Writers Theatre 325 Tudor Ct. Glencoe […]

by Will Mendelson

Community Celebrations: Northwestern's Sir Fraser Stoddart Receives Nobel Prize in Chemistry

On Oct. 5, 2016, Sir Fraser Stoddart, Board of Trustees Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Jean-Pierre Sauvage (University of Strasbourg, France) and Bernard L. Feringa (University of Groningen, the Netherlands). According to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences’ press release, the […]

by Anna Carlson