Where the Animals Are Part of the Party: Lincoln Park Zoo Ball
One of Chicago’s crown jewels is Lincoln Park Zoo, which remains free and open to the public 365 days a year.
Quick and Easy: Hoops with Heart
847 Hoops is offering 7th and 8th graders the chance to hone their basketball skills during the summer, for free. Darren Barndt, a basketball coach at Lake Forest High School, and his former player Aron Khurana founded 847 Hoops to bring people together through the love of basketball. The participants are all of different […]
An Unforgettable Performance
The Watoto Children’s Choir is bringing inspiring song and dance to the North Shore. Since the first choir was created in 1994, 55 Watoto Children’s Choirs have toured the world to raise awareness for the nearly 50 million orphaned children in Africa. These tours give the children, who have lost one or both parents, […]
Artistic Creativity + Passion Results in Much More Than Just 'Happiness'
Flying through the air in the grandest of ballet jumps at the Evanston School of Ballet is where Melissa Thodos found the joy in dance. Now, as founder and artistic director of Thodos Dance Chicago, where she is also a choreographer, the Evanston native thinks back to those classes as the beginning of her life’s […]
100 Years of Service
The Junior League of Chicago (JLC) has promoted voluntarism and the potential of women in the community since it was founded 100 years ago. When Lucy McCormick Blair Linn and twelve of her friends founded JLC in 1912, their first projects addressed the problems that women were having in the workplace. Their very first […]
How to Bring Clarity and Creativity to Your Everyday Life: Piven Theatre
Whether you’re a salesman, a teacher, or an aspiring actor, Piven Theatre Workshop has a class for you. “Our classes help anyone communicate, from children learning to make eye contact, to a social worker who needs to learn to work with kids who are non-verbal,” says Leslie Brown, Executive Director. “Our classes start with groups […]
Quick and Easy: Father's Day Photo Shoot
Celebrate Father’s Day with a photo shoot that gives back to families in need (and makes an awesome Father’s Day gift). Classic Kids and Bubbles Academy are working together in support of The Primo Center for Women and Children by hosting a Father’s Day Photo Shoot on Saturday June 16th. Classic Kids will be matching […]
Quick and Easy: Race Against Hate
Join the YWCA Evanston North Shore for the 13th annual Ricky Byrdsong Memorial Race Against Hate. Race Against Hate was launched to preserve the memory of Ricky Byrdsong, an African American man who was the victim of race violence in Skokie in 1999. This annual Father’s Day tradition allows the whole family to join in […]
Like Angels on Wings’: The Chicago Lighthouse
The year was 1997. Sally Higginson and Betsy Brint, the “former Schwartz sisters” of Highland Park, as many refer to them, were celebrating Mother’s Day with their families. With lots of small children and distracted mothers, the only one paying attention to the eight-week-old baby in a carseat was the bachelor brother. “Hey, when do […]
KABOOM! Get Out and Play
Darrell Hammond, founder of KABOOM!, encourages dads to go outside and play with their kids on Father’s Day. “If you don’t have playful adults, you won’t have playful kids,” he says. Hammond raised over $200 million, rallied one million volunteers and led the hands-on construction of 2,000 playgrounds across the United States. Growing up in […]
