There’s still time left to support Breast Cancer Awareness and feel pretty in pink. For the rest of the month, find special promotions for “pink items” at the 900 North Michigan Shops, with portions of the proceeds going toward breast cancer research and charities. Bloomingdale’s Proceeds from the purchase of The Pink Card, The Big […]
“Children are the messages we send to generations that we will never see,” says Dolores Kohl.
A decade ago, the Kohl Children’s Museum occupied a retro-fitted bowling alley on Green Bay Road in Wilmette. Today, it’s located on an 8.8-acre parcel of land in Glenview and has been named one of the ten best children’s museums in the country by Parents magazine. Kohl would never have grown into such a grand, […]
Jill Feldman doesn’t look or act like the victim of a cruel irony. She lost both her parents and two grandparents to lung cancer before she was 28. Jill saw the stigma surrounding lung cancer (it’s associated so strongly with smoking that people often assume it’s preventable), so she became involved in LUNGevity in 2001. […]
When three generations of a family unite in purpose, great things can happen. For the Duchossois family, who own a conglomeration of businesses based in Elmhurst, the desire to make a difference is embodied in their family’s foundation, which is headed by Kim Duchossois. “My father and brother asked me to take this on,” she […]
In 1974, Ellie Clarke’s 9-year-old daughter died of a brain tumor. In the wake of her daughter’s death, Clarke says her own life felt meaningless. “I thought about it a lot. What was I going to do? I wasn’t just going to sit around weeping all day,” remembers Clarke. So she began volunteering, first at […]
This is a love story: the story of a couple who fell in love with the beauty, the balance and the philosophy of a Chicago-based architect who died before either of them was born. Their enthusiasm became the catalyst for establishing The Benjamin Marshall Society. Jane Lepauw, who grew up in Northbrook, and her Parisian […]
Philanthropy is more than ball gowns and galas.
Evanston’s Levy Center was hopping with young football fans. They turned out to meet Chicago Bears’ safety Major Wright, who threw a pizza party to launch his “It’s the Wright Thing To Do” campaign. The late-September event drew a capacity crowd and raised money for two local football teams, the High Ridge Chargers, and the […]
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