Friends unite for diabetes cure

The Event: November was American Diabetes Awareness Month and so it was fitting that on Nov. 3, 300 Friends United for Juvenile Diabetes Research got together for “The Voice for the Cure” benefit at Resolution Digital Studios in Chicago.

What began as a grassroots movement …

Beat goes on for Rhythm Project

The Event: More than 200 guests helped Chicago Human Rhythm Project launch its 23rd season with “Jubalee.” The annual gala benefit was celebrated on the Jay Pritzker Pavilion Stage in Millennium Park with veteran journalist Bill Kurtis acting as Master of Ceremonies on Oct. 29. …

Midwest Young Artists celebrates 20 years

The Event: For the past two decades, Midwest Young Artists, a full curriculum, pre-college music school in Highwood, has enriched the lives of students and their communities with the joy of music.

In celebration of this achievement, on Oct. 28 more than 500 MYA prodigies …

Rush’s 86th Fashion Show “Envisions” a world with no cancer

The Event: Celebrity models donned designer duds and strutted their stuff down the catwalk at the Palmer House Hilton on October 18 for the 86th annual Woman’s Board of Rush University Medical Center fashion show, “Envision.”

More than 600 attendees came to support for Rush’s …

‘TNT’ gala raises $600,000 for Weizmann Institute

The Event: Twelve-foot-tall comic book superheroes peppered the reception at the Fairmont Hotel Chicago, on Oct. 27 in honor of the 2012 gala for the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science. More than 400 guests turned out for “TNT,” the night’s theme of …