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Join us on June 9, 2008 for this year’s Best of Illinois dinner, honoring the hard work and dedication of our chapter’s past presidents.
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Calling all past presidents:
There are many past presidents, volunteers, and leaders we are still trying to track down. If you can share early history of our chapter, please contact the JDRF office at 312-670-0313. We would love to hear from you and have you take part in this event!
 
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The 29th Annual Chance of a Lifetime Gala will take place on Saturday, December 13th! Please be sure to check back for details on the evening, including entertainment!
Click here for information on last year’s Gala.
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Enter to design our 2008 holiday card! JDRF Illinois will sell the winning card as part of our holiday card program.
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JDRF was proud to be the event’s Grand Marshal and we received wonderful news coverage!
Here are photos from the parade.
A few short months ago, the lives of one our JDRF families changed forever. Lilly Jaffe, a six-year-old North Shore suburban girl who had been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when she was just one month old, became insulin independent. “She is so proud,” said her mother, Laurie Jaffe, “So happy and excited. For the first time in her life, she can be like her friends and her brother and sister.”
Read more about Lilly’s amazing story.
The buzz around the promise of an artificial pancreas is truly deserving. “Perfecting a closed loop artificial pancreas” is one of JDRF’s five cure therapeutic goals in the next five years. JDRF has launched “The Artificial Pancreas Project,” a new initiative to help accelerate the availability of this technology to people with type 1 diabetes.
For basic information about Artificial Pancreas Project, download this PDF.
For further information on the Artificial Pancreas Project, please visit http://www.jdrf.org/index.cfm?page_id=106675.
JDRF’s Three Year Goals and Milestones
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