Four Stars Extravaganza to Benefit St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital May 20, 2009

Join Four Stars of Chicago for its
15th Annual Restaurant Extravaganza Benefiting
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

WHAT: The Four Stars of Chicago Executive Committee will be hosting its Annual Restaurant Extravaganza to benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Since 1994 Fours Stars of Chicago has raised more than $4.5 million for St. Jude. This prestigious event sets the stage for Chicagoland’s finest restaurants such as Hugo’s Frog Bar and Fish House, Maza Restaurant, McCormick & Schmick’s, Volare, Wildfire and others to showcase cuisine for the area’s most prominent civic and corporate leaders in support of St. Jude. The benefit will include cocktails and a silent auction beginning at 5:45 p.m. The program and dinner will commence at 6:45 p.m.

WHEN: 5:45 p.m., Wednesday, May 20, 2009

WHERE: The Hilton Chicago Hotel
Grand Ballroom, 2nd floor
720 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois

COST: Miracle Table $25,000 (Table of 10)
Hope Table $10,000 (Table of 10)
Promise Table $5,000 (Table of 10)
Dream Table $3,500 (Table of 10)
Individual Tickets $350 each

Donations are welcomed and appreciated.

WHO: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is internationally recognized for its pioneering work in finding cures and saving children with cancer and other catastrophic diseases. Founded by late entertainer Danny Thomas and based in Memphis, Tennessee, St. Jude freely shares its discoveries with scientific and medical communities around the world. No family ever pays for treatments not covered by insurance, and families without insurance are never asked to pay. St. Jude is financially supported by ALSAC, its fundraising organization. Children from all 50 states and from around the world have come through the doors of St. Jude for treatment, and thousands more around the world have benefited from the research conducted at St. Jude – research that is shared freely with the global medical community. Working together under one roof, our physicians and scientists have pioneered treatments that have helped push the overall survival rates for childhood cancers from less than 20 percent when the hospital opened in 1962 to more than 70 percent today. The survival rate for the most common form of childhood cancer, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, has risen from just 4 percent in 1962 to 94 percent today.

For more information, visit our website at www.stjude.org/fourstarschicago

CONTACT: Paramount Public Relations, Inc.
Jessica Prah, 312-953-3257, jprah@paramountpr.com
Lauren Bishop, 312.643.0610, lbishop@paramountpr.com
Erica Morisco, 312.643.2460, emorisco@paramountpr.com

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