Catch Your Breath: Innovative Fundraising for Lung Health

What would you do for a favorite charity? Would you jump off a building?   Okay, maybe not jump, but rappel down the 27-story theWit Hotel to raise money for the Respiratory Health Association of Metropolitan Chicago.  Eighty people did just that on a recent spring weekend. Each raised at least $1,000 for the organization […]

by Laura Hine

Mighty Magners: Finding Hope for Kids with Cystic Fibrosis

When Casey and Jackie Magner’s son John was a toddler, they discovered he had cystic fibrosis. This life-threatening genetic disease causes mucus to build up and clog some of the organs in the body, particularly the lungs and pancreas. The Winnetka family immediately tested their three other children, and discovered that their youngest, Matthew, also […]

by Laura Tiebert