First Annual Chicago Big Ten Charity Bar Crawl

For all of you Big Ten alumni and friends in Chicago, if you don't already know about this, on Saturday August 28th will be the first annual Big Ten Charity Bar Crawl. If you're looking to do some day drinking for a good cause, this is your event.

Here are the details:
When: Saturday, August 28 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Where: Chicago's River North neighborhood
Who: Big Ten alumni and friends
How much: $15 in advance; $20 day of. Until August 8, you can get discounted tickets by using the singular form of your mascot as a discount code (i.e., "hoosier" for the IU people and "skidmark" for the Purdue people).
Buy tickets here: http://www.ChicagoBIGTEN.org/

Here is a paraphased description of the event from the website:
Each school will call a River North bar home for the day. There will be 11 bars, each representing a different Big Ten school, with special campus-themed specials at each bar, in addition to $3 Budweisers and $5 Absolut at every stop. In addition to the drink specials, throughout the day, alumni will square off in rivalry contests and vie for prizes like a trip to Vegas at River North mainstays like Rockit, English, Bull and Bear, Social 25, and District.

The goal is to raise $25,000 for charity, with 100% of proceeds benefiting Alumni for Public Schools, a not-for-profit organization that promotes and supports volunteer partnerships between Chicago chapters of university alumni associates and individual Chicago public schools. The goal is to enhance student learning and increase students' awareness of and readiness for post-secondary options. Here is the charity's website: http://www.APS-Chicago.org/.