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Lake County YMCA celebrates 100 years
The Event: According to popular mores, the appropriate gift for a 100-year birthday is platinum. It is little wonder then that beloved community centenarian, the YMCA, chose to celebrate its platinum jubilee bash casino style at the Double Tree Hilton in Mundelein. On April 21, …
It’s a photo finish for Barrington Children’s Charities
The Event: On May 5 Barrington Children’s Charities second annual Run for the Roses Derby Party inside the Millrose Restaurant in South Barrington featured a hat parade to rival Britain. Every type of feathery chapeau, bonnet and fascinator was in full bloom — sometimes literally …
‘The Movement’ premieres in Skokie
The Event: Finding that turning point where physical disability is no longer a limitation but instead has become part of one’s character is the message of “The Movement,” a short documentary film narrated by Robert Redford and Warren Miller. It made its Chicago debut April …
Feed My Starving Children raises more than $308,000
The Event: Mosaic was more than just the name of the ensemble entertaining during the Feed My Starving Children gala on April 20; it was an apt description of the nearly 80,000 children in 70 countries that FMSC currently feeds through missionary partnerships with orphanages, …
Generations of support rally for Planned Parenthood
The Event: On the heels of an election year in which the unfathomable term “war on women” entered the national discourse, more than 400 supporters of women’s rights met on April 19 inside the Fairmont Hotel Chicago to celebrate and rally for the national nonprofit …
JUF hosts ‘Jewish Jordan’ in Glencoe
The Event: The theme of dreaming — and achieving — the impossible dream was front and center on April 17 inside the North Shore Congregation Israel in Glencoe, where more than 100 supporters of the Jewish United Fund came out to meet one of Israel’s …
