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Joffrey Luncheon Launches Giselle
BY JUDY CARMACK BROSS Over 300 of Chicago’s most notable women gathered recently to celebrate Giselle, surely the most romantic ballet of all time and the Joffrey’s 2017-18 season opener....
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Kathy Bates Wows Lynn Sage Luncheon Guests
BY JUDY CARMACK BROSS Oscar-winning actress Kathy Bates’s stirring speech on surviving cancer brought the crowd of almost 800 guests to their feet in applause at the recent Lynn Sage Cancer...
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The Costume Council Celebrates Marchesa
BY COY THOMPSON Every great host and hostess maintains meticulous control over all components of a party right down to the last detail. So, when only one of the co-founders of Marchesa, the day’s...
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Princess Sally’s SOS Children’s Villages
BY JUDY CARMACK BROSS Left to Right: John Fornengo, Princess Salimah Aga Khan, Steve Zick, Brett Sherlock. Princess Salimah is a global force for good. I so admire her for her tireless commitment...
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ZooLa Goes Live
BY JUDY CARMACK BROSS Leave it to auctioneer John Fornengo and the ZooLa ingenious co-chairs Sarah Beardsley and Katie Gledhill to mix the almost impossible to obtain “Hamilton” theater...
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The 2017 Service Club Gala
Truly an Evening of Magic By Megan McKinney John and Myra Reilly, Stanley Paul and Linda and Mark Heister. One can always count on the Service...
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A Masked Affair at The Drake
By Megan McKinney Jen Horsley and Suzi Bramson Brooks, A Masked Affair co-chairs, flank Marion Valle, auctioneer. A Masked Affair, the Almost Home Kids sixth annual Share the Care Ball,...
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Glittering Galleries at the Field
BY JUDY CARMACK BROSS Gloriously garbed guests explored Greek, Roman, and Egyptian treasures at the recent Field Museum Gala hosted by the Board of Trustees and the Women’s Board. Coinciding...
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Tiffany Meets Acadia
BY JUDY CARMACK BROSS The soaring Tiffany windows of the Second Presbyterian Church, and the inventive hors d’oeuvres of Acadia’s chef, Ryan McCaskey, made a recent Sunday in the South Loop a...
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Rush Women’s Board GLOWS
BY JUDY CARMACK BROSS GLOW turned the page for the Women’s Board of Rush University Medical Center, replacing their iconic fashion show with a glittering fall gala that raised $450,000 to...
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The Revolutionary Warriors
BY JUDY CARMACK BROSS Nathaniel Philbrick, best-selling author and winner of the National Book Award, made the Revolutionary War come alive for 200 members of the Society of Colonial Wars in the...
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Kimberly Jung: IWA’s Woman Extraordinaire
BY JUDY CARMACK BROSS International entrepreneur Kimberly Jung, CEO and co-founder of the Chicago-based Rumi Spice, received the International Women’s Associates highest honor at a recent...
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Irish Georgian Society Celebrates
BY JUDY CARMACK BROSS Over a dazzling candlelit dinner, Sir David Davies, President of the Irish Georgian Society, announced to the 130 guests in attendance an exciting plan: the reopening of...
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Sissinghurst Blooms for Royal Oak
BY JUDY CARMACK BROSS Troy Scott Smith, Head Gardener at Sissinghurst in Kent, recently took the sold-out Royal Oak Foundation’s audience through Vita Sackville-West’s breathtaking white garden,...
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Glamour at the Breakthrough Ball
BY JUDY CARMACK BROSS Almost $1.5 million in new seed funding, brought about by the University of Chicago’s Cancer Research Foundation Women’s Board bewitching Breakthrough Ball, will go to...
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Flight Gala: Celebrating Courageous Campers
BY JUDY CARMACK BROSS Over 400 guests at the Four Seasons Hotel recently toasted the Camp One Step by Children’s Oncology Services, begun in 1978. The fourth annual Flight gala raised more than...
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Arne Duncan and the Golden Apple
BY JUDY CARMACK BROSS For 32 years the Golden Apple Foundation has given apples to their favorite teachers: Chicago’s most innovative and passionate classroom advocates. The Golden Apple Impact...
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All Aboard for the Holidays
Jean Franczyk, President and CEO of the Chicago Botanic Garden, with All Aboard! Co-chairs Mary Alice Miller and Marcy Johnson. The Woman’s Board of the Chicago Horticultural Society...
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Service Club Holiday Luncheon
Another Excuse to Raise Funds—And Party! By Megan McKinney The Walnut Room Fairy, who flew in from the Marshall Field and Company Building for the day, with Lezley Hodes,...
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Lurie Children’s Ball Draws Over 1000 Celebrators
BY JUDY CARMACK BROSS With a goal to help the Children’s Research Fund “rewrite the possibilities” for patients and families treated at Lurie Children’s Hospital, the recent Children’s Ball...
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