ML - Michigan Avenue

2013 - Issue 2 - Spring

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SPIRIT OF GENEROSITY Shakespeare���s Directed by Robert Falls AD ROBERT FALLS��� DARING NEW PRODUCTION TAKES US INTO THE HEART OF SHAKESPEARE���S DARK COMEDY, IN WHICH VIRTUE AND VICE COLLIDE���AND LUST AND THE LAW ARE INEXTRICABLY ENTWINED. MARCH 9 ��� APRIL 14 Joined by Cubs pitching coach Chris Bosio, second baseman Darwin Barney reads to students during the Cubs Caravan in January 2012. continued from page 64 Library���s summer reading programs, which aim to help more than 50,000 youth. I also believe we���re the first major league sports team to have our own float in the LGBT Pride Parade; many associates join to show support for the LGBT community and Pride month, and that���s something I���m very proud of. Last April we hosted our second Bricks and Ivy Charity Ball, our major annual fundraiser, which also serves as a kickoff to the season. We had 100 percent participation by all players and coaches���every single one of them came to show their support���and we raised $1.1 million at that event. Our third Bricks and Ivy Ball is April 11, and we���re hoping again to have such great support from the coaches and players. For me, one of the most rewarding aspects of our work is meeting the people we���re supporting. Last summer I received an e-mail from the father of a child I had met during a Cubs Caravan visit at the old Children���s Hospital. He is a big White Sox fan, and his son was a big Cubs fan. The son had been fighting brain tumors nearly his whole life. I had several minutes to visit with them, and unfortunately later that spring he passed away. Because the family spent so much of their son���s life in the old Children���s Hospital, I asked the father to be my guest at the ribbon cutting for the new hospital. He was able to see how amazing it is���how much his son would have loved it, how much more comfortable a facility it is. He brought pictures of his son with his Cubs memorabilia and told us how much our visit meant to him and how important our support for the Children���s Hospital is. It was just a very touching moment. Whether it���s Lakeview Pantry (a food bank in Wrigleyville whose Bricks and Ivy Ball managers are incredibly committed) or Housing Opportunities for When: April 11, 6 PM Women (whose support has helped Where: Grand Ballroom at Navy Pier, 600 E. Grand transform homeless, jobless clients Ave., 312-595 7437; into strong, energized women on a navypier.com career path), it���s an honor to partner Cost: $500 with these organizations because Info: mlb.mlb.com/chc/ they are truly making our commucommunity/bricksivyball.jsp nity a better place to live. MA INSIGHT FIND US AT INTENDED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES SINGLE TICKETS/ SUBSCRIPTIONS: 312.443.3800 | GoodmanTheatre.org GROUP SALES FOR 10 OR MORE: 312.443.3820 | GoodmanTheatre.org/Groups Exclusive Airline of Goodman Theatre 064-067_MA_SP_SpiritofGen_Spring13.indd 66 KIMPTON CHICAGO HOTELS Preferred Hotel PETTERINO���S Promotional Partner 2/13/13 11:01 AM

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