{"id":4723,"date":"2014-08-27T10:12:45","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T04:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/news\/2014\/08\/27\/midwest-cruise-raises-180000-plus-for-city-of-hope\/"},"modified":"2014-08-27T10:12:45","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T04:42:45","slug":"midwest-cruise-raises-180000-plus-for-city-of-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/midwest-cruise-raises-180000-plus-for-city-of-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Midwest cruise raises $180,000-plus for City of Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 320 guests tour Chicago lakefront<\/p>\n<p>CHICAGO \u00e2\u20ac\u201d More than 320 home furnishings industry executives enjoyed a scenic tour of this city\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lakefront during the annual Midwest Dinner Cruise, a benefit for the City of Hope.<\/p>\n<p>The event, which included dinner, music and dancing, raised more than $180,000 for the medical center\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s research and treatment programs.<br \/>\n                        <!--adsense--><br \/>\n\t\t <!--more--><\/p>\n<p> Among the attendees was John Disa, president and CEO of Wheeling, Ill.-based retailer Wickes Furniture, who will be honored in October with one of the City of Hope\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Spirit of Life Awards. Nearly 100 Wickes employees joined him.<\/p>\n<p>Also representing sponsors at the event were David Milgrom of DMSI and Ted Wecker of Sea Products\/Skyline Furniture. Jena Hall of Aspenhome and Roger Murray of Simmons, who serve as presidents of the City of Hope\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s National Home Furnishings Industry Chapter, also attended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 320 guests tour Chicago lakefront CHICAGO \u00e2\u20ac\u201d More than 320 home furnishings industry executives enjoyed a scenic tour of this city\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lakefront during the annual Midwest Dinner Cruise, a benefit for the City of Hope. The event, which included dinner, music and dancing, raised more than $180,000 for the medical center\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s research and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-furniture-indonesia-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}