- Guild Co-Presidents Kimberly Burt and Amy Brock
The Guild of the Chicago Botanic Garden, led this year by co-presidents Amy Brock and Kimberly Burt consisting of more than 100 young leaders from the Chicagoland area, hosted their 17th annual Harvest Ball on Saturday, September 19. With fall on the horizon, the 300 or so guests in attendance, dressed in their finest black-tie attires to the groups main fundraising event, arrived through the Heritage Garden on the lush grounds of the Chicago Botanic Garden.
Cocktail reception and silent auction in the McGinley Pavilion was followed by sit down dinner inside the HMR Design outfitted tented pavilion.
This year’s event, co-chaired by Katie Kirtley and Erin Ritchie, with Megan Sleight and Bobbi Rowe serving as auction co-chairs, raised $375,000 for the Regenstein Foundation Learning Campus-a gateway to nature for children and their families entering the Garden’s Regenstein Foundation Learning Campus.
- Harvest Ball 2015 Co-Chairs Katie Kirtley and Erin Ritchie
Guests then danced the night away as the band The Chicago Players performed.
photos courtesy Chicago Botanic Garden by Robert Kusel
