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EVENT REPORT 05.21.08 3:01 PM

Aerialists and a Rousing Silent Auction Mark American Cancer Society's Discovery Ball

Charlie Trotter's live-auction prize
Photo: Lee Hoagland

The theme of Saturday's Discovery Ball, a black-tie fund-raiser for the American Cancer Society held at McCormick Place West, was inspired by its name. "The real driver for some of the creativity behind this event was the word discovery," said Lee Kite, the society's director of distinguished events. Considering, according to Kite, "Chicago is an innovative city that enfolds so many of its own discoveries," she planned an evening that would celebrate some acclaimed aspects of local culture—especially its culinary and musical accomplishments.

At the cocktail reception that kicked off the gala, young musicians from the Thelonius Monk Institute of Jazz played beside a silent auction that comprised nearly 400 lots. At bars set up throughout the venue's prereception space (which also housed part of the silent auction), bartenders shook up specialty drinks that iconic local chef Charlie Trotter created especially for the occasion. Cocktails came with jazzy names like the Rhapsody in Groove, which was a blend of gin, vodka, ginger ale, bitter lemon soda, fresh lemon juice, and a sugar-dusted lemon slice. MORE >>

McCormick Place West, American Cancer Society, Herbie Hancock, Charlie Trotter