Chicago WILDERNESS Magazine Holds Wild, Successful Benefit

Chicago WILDERNESS Magazine held its second benefit dinner in mid-October at Kendall College in Evanston, raising more than $37,000 to support the magazine.

Sponsors for the event included Strachan Donnelley/Center for Humans and Nature, BP, ComEd/Exelon, and Christopher Burke Engineering. Enormous thanks go to the quintet of celebrated chefs who donated their time and culinary creativity to cook for the guests: Tracey Vowell of Frontera Grill and Topolobampo, Michael Altenberg of Campagnola, Paul Kahan of Blackbird, Jennifer Newbury of Fortunato, and Della Gossett of Charlie Trotter's.

Thanks, too, to the students and Chef Paul Draz of Kendall for serving as wait staff and providing hors d'oeuvres. Pierre Lasserre from the Ritz-Carlton arranged for wines, and Two Brothers Brewing Company, Red Hen Bakery, and The Natural Garden donated beer, bread, and baskets of native plants, respectively.