First Look For Charity
Date:
Friday, February 7, 2025
Location:
McCormick Place
2301 S King Dr,
Room S105ab,
Chicago, IL 60616
Time:
6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Lurie Children’s Private Reception
7:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. First Look for Charity Show Floor Open
Catch a Sneak Peek of the Chicago Auto Show While Supporting Lurie Children’s!
Please join Lurie Children’s on February 7, 2025 at First Look for Charity, a black-tie evening previewing the Chicago Auto Show at McCormick Place, Chicago. Gain exclusive access to see the cars and trucks featured in the auto show while supporting the patients and families at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. The Chicago Auto Show is the nation’s largest and longest running auto show.
As a supporter of Lurie Children’s, you will gain access to a private reception with small bites, cocktails, and raffle prizes. The night includes live entertainment on the show floor and a chance to win a Chevrolet Equinox EV & Hyundai Palisade. Winners must be present.
If you have any questions, please contact Madeline Zandhuis mzandhuis@luriechildrens.org or 312.227.7267
* Black-tie attire is mandatory.
About First Look For Charity
For more information on about the Chicago Auto Show, please visit the website. First Look for Charity benefits Lurie Children’s and 17 other charities. First Look for Charity and the Chicago Auto Show are presented by the Chicago Automobile Trade Association and new-car dealers of Chicagoland and northwest Indiana.
About Lurie Children’s
In the 2023-2024 U.S. News & World Report rankings of the best children's hospitals, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago continues to be the top pediatric hospital in Illinois. Lurie Children's provides superior pediatric care in a state-of-the-art hospital that offers the latest benefits and innovations in medical technology, family-friendly design and research through the Stanley Manne Children's Research Institute. The main hospital is located in downtown Chicago on the campus of its academic partner, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Lurie Children's has a network of more than 20 outpatient and primary care locations and10 partner hospitals, providing top pediatric care across the greater Chicago area. As a nonprofit hospital, Lurie Children's relies on philanthropic support to care for more than 260,000 children each year.
Learn more at luriechildrens.org
About Our Patient Champion
In 2017, Kendra and Lord Cole were overjoyed by the birth of their daughter, Cali, but their happiness turned to concern when she was diagnosed with sickle cell disease, a condition that causes severe pain, organ damage, and other complications. In the US, the condition disproportionately affects Black and African American children.
“No kid deserves to live with sickle cell disease,” Kendra said. “When we thought about our family life and all the things we saw for Cali, that was not a part of the promise we made to her as parents.”
Determined to give Cali a healthier future, Kendra and Lord explored treatment options and learned about stem cell transplantation; a groundbreaking curative treatment available through the Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago. Under the guidance of Dr. Sonali Chaudhury and Dr. Robert Liem, research had shown that stem cell transplants from genetically compatible donors could cure severe sickle cell disease, with a safer protocol developed for children like Cali.
In 2019, after a year of in vitro fertilization, the Coles welcomed their second daughter, Reign, who became Cali’s stem cell donor. By 2021, Cali underwent the transplant and quickly recovered without any major side effects. Within 19 days, she returned home.
Today, Cali lives pain-free, and her parents are grateful for clinical researchers, donors and families affected by sickle cell disease who contributed to the pediatric science enabling their daughter’s cure. They hope to inspire other Black families to consider stem cell transplants as a viable treatment option for sickle cell disease.
Your support of First Look for Charity helps make sure every child can receive the most effective treatments as quickly as possible – just like Cali.
As a non-profit hospital, Lurie Children’s depends on your support to advance life-saving research, for our patients and families like Cali. For nearly the cost of a black-tie evening, you can provide a healthier future for our patients and families. Here are some ways you can drive innovation, accelerate research, or fuel change.
Pet Therapy Visit - $35
When a child is hospitalized and separated from familiar surroundings, the distance from siblings, friends and even family pets can cause additional stress and interfere with healing. Pet therapy is clinically-proven to reduce anxiety and help kids get better faster. Your gift can help hospitalized children find comfort and heal faster through pet therapy.
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Music Therapy Instruments - $50
The hospital setting can be a new, unfamiliar and sometimes frightening world for children. Music helps patients express their emotions and calms their nerves. Your gift can help provide instruments for our music therapists.
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Car Seat - $75
Your gift can provide a free car seat for a family in need, along with installation assistance and training, through our Buckle Up Child Passenger Safety Program.
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Activity Monitors - $99
Wearable health sensing technology provides new ways monitor patients and make moving more fun. Your gift can help provide activity monitors so our care teams can better track data and give children the best chance for a speedy recovery.
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Access for Every Child - $150
When a child is sick, the last thing parents should have to worry about it how to pay for their child's healthcare. As a nonprofit hospital, Lurie Children’s is dedicated to providing every child a healthier future, treating families to the limits of our resources and regardless of their ability to pay. Your gift allows us to ease financial burdens so families can focus on what's truly important––their child’s health.
Give NowCorporate Sponsorship
As one of the top children’s hospitals in the nation, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago cares for more children than any other pediatric hospital in Illinois. Your company has the opportunity to not only impact and change kids’ lives, but also strengthen your brand and build new business by aligning your company with Lurie Children’s!
Some benefits of sponsoring First Look for Charity include: pre-event marketing and exposure, employee engagement by inviting them to this one–of–a–kind event, and more.
Please contact Jennie Cimino for a full look into our Sponsor Benefits at 312.227.7262 | jcimino@luriechildrens.org
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