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

Heart Transplant Recipient Celebrates the Life of her Donor

Most 26-year-old women experience heartaches over men, children and careers. Melissa Simon’s heartache was literal. Simon, a Westchester resident, had suffered heart disease for 13 years when she underwent a surgery to repair her heart valve in April of 2007. The procedure was not successful, and her doctors at Northwestern placed her name at the […]

by Patty Lamberti