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FINAL RESULTS
Total Team ATG Cash Donations: $25,395
Total Team ATG Food Donations: 732 pounds

FINAL LFI DRIVE RESULTS:

  • Money Raised = $769,212
  • Meals Provided = 3,846,060
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March 4, 2013: "Lawyers Feeding Illinois surpasses goal of raising one million meals" | Times-Republic Online, Watseka, IL
Lawyers in Illinois took a big bite out of the state’s hunger problem by surpassing a goal to raise one million meals during a two-week food and fundraising drive.... Read more

February 2013: "Lawyers Lead by Example" | IllinoisLawyerFinder, Springfield, IL
...When Lawyers Feeding Illinois — an initiative of Illinois State Bar Association President John Thies to raise one million meals for hungry Illinoisans — needed seed money, it was Peter who stepped forward.... Read more

February 26, 2013: Hank Shulruff Interview (click image to view) | WICS-TV 20, Springfield, IL

February 13, 2013: John O'Brien Interview (click image to view) | WTVO-TV 17, Rockford, IL
February 26, 2013: "Help Feed Stateline Families: Lawyers Feeding Illinois Food Drive" | mystateline.com, Rockford, IL
Their goal is to provide one million meals to the hungry in Illinois and you can help make it happen! Read more.
February 22, 2013: Ralph Schumann (left), ATG member and president of the Illinois Real Estate Lawyers Association (IRELA), presented a check for $2500 to Team ATG in support of the ISBA's Lawyers Feeding Illinois initiative. In this photo, taken at ATG's Arlington Heights office, Ralph and ATG Vice President John O'Brien (right) are holding cases of peanut butter—part of a sizable donation from Elgin-based Fisher Nuts. Our thanks to Ralph Schumann, and our friends at IRELA and Fisher Nuts.

February 22, 2013: "Lawyers Feeding Illinois hits half a million meals" | Illinois Lawyer Now, Springfield, IL
Half way through its two-week campaign from Feb. 18-March 1 to raise one million meals, the Lawyers Feeding Illinois campaign has reached a significant milestone, having raised more than 500,000 meals, according to ISBA President John E. Thies. The campaign, conducted in cooperation with Feeding Illinois, is chaired by Thies’s wife Terry. Read more.

February 20, 2013: "Lawyers competing to help food banks" | The News-Gazette, Urbana, IL
Local lawyer John Thies has challenged his fellow attorneys to help take a significant bite out of hunger in Illinois, and he's given them two weeks to pull it off. Read more

February 18, 2013: Greg Hunziker Interview (click image to view) | WMBD-TV 31, Peoria-Bloomington, IL

February 13, 2013: Jerry Gorman Interview (click image to view) | WICD-TV 15, Champaign, IL

February 13, 2013: John O'Brien Interview (click image to view) | WAND-TV 17, Decatur, IL

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[Last update: 4-22-13]

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