Summer in Chicago for Me

Happy summer for all.  This is is how my July shaped up.  This is from my monthly update and July, so far, has been the best month of 08.  I will keep you posted if the other four top this one, but  July was what summer was all about.  I began with a film at the Midwest Indy Film Festival with Chicago being showcased in the film Diminished Capacity with Alan Alda, Matthew Broderick and Virginia Madsen, Cub fans will love this one.

After a festive fourth of July holiday I did a meet and greet/transfer with student athletes returning from competition in Amsterdam.  I connected with colleagues at a Second City event, volunteered again with Chicago 2016 for the Chicago Believes fund raising event that had all the big Chicago business movers and shakers in attendance at Millennium Park.

Cinema Chicago (The Chicago International Film Festival) hosted the Chicago Premier of Batman:  The Dark Knight, can’t even say how cool that was.  I visited the Field with CTPA colleagues and was at the United Center as a greeter when Joel Osteen visited Chicago.

On a rainy Saturday, I did a city highlights tour for a family reunion group and I was there when Buddy Guy received the first Performer of Illinois award at Millennium Park, connected again with colleagues at Castaways on a very breezy evening and participated with the Junior Board of the Film Festival when wee hosted the screening of Pineapple Express with an after party at Madame Tartine’s on east Hubbard.

I  had fun at the Guitar Hero’s party with Bridges Media and enjoyed Venetian night and fireworks from the lake on an architectural boat cruise.

I did another meet and greet/transfer with student athletes and ended July working the American Academy of Dermatology summer meeting at the Hyatt on Wacker. It was a fun July and I’m looking forward to August having just as much excitement. 

Enjoy what’s left of the summer and remain cool.