2010 Parks Ball 21st Annual Gala
Parks Ball 2010
The Board of Directors of Friends of the Parks cordially invites you to join us at the 21st Annual Parks Ball honoring Vicky and George Ranney.
The event takes place on Friday, April 9, 2010 at the beautiful South Shore Cultural Center (7059 S. South Shore Drive in Chicago). Join us at six thirty in the evening for cocktails, silent auction and Redmoon performers. Dinner and dancing will follow.
Dress is cocktail attire. Individual tickets are $225 per person. Tables of ten are $3,000 and $5,000. To receive an invitation or learn more about the event, call Nancy Minster Swabb, Events Director, at (312) 857-2757 extension 11.
Proceeds benefit Friends of the Parks
Your participation in the Parks Ball directly supports Friends of the Parks’ work to improve neighborhood parks and children’s playgrounds in Chicago and forest preserves in Cook County.
Friends of the Parks is the only citywide, independent park advocacy organization working on behalf of all Chicago neighborhood parks, playgrounds, the lakefront and forest preserves. For 35 years, Friends of the Parks has been the strongest voice for the protection, preservation, expansion and improvement of the city’s 7,400 acres of parks and Cook County’s 68,000 acres of forest preserves.
Chicago’s lakefront and neighborhood parks are critical to the health and vitality of our city. Millions of people depend on our public parks for recreation, fitness, sports, peace, quiet and for social interaction. Our parks are the most democratic places in the city, spaces where all citizens gather and grow. Our work ensures that Chicago’s parks are the front and backyards for millions of Chicagoans who walk, jog, play sports, swim, sail, push a stroller or walk a dog.
In 2010, with help from friends like you, we will:
- Build, with the Chicago Park District, a sorely-needed new children’s playground at Grand Crossing Park (7655 S. Ingleside) in one of Chicago’s neediest neighborhoods;
- Introduce legislation to implement Phase I of The Last Four Miles, a plan to complete Chicago’s lakefront parks
- Plant 100 trees
Thank you for your support!
