Local Legends 2024
We're excited to announce Dr. Hugh C. Falls as our 2024 Local Legend!
Over the course of fifty-plus years, Dr. Falls delivered between 11,000 and 12,000 babies – most of them at Lake Forest Hospital. A progressive physician who combined his love for patient care with education, Dr. Falls also taught at Northwestern University and helped steer the hospital’s Education Committee even after retiring in 2019. His thousands of patients thank him, above all, for being kind.
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Local Legends Patron Sponsor Roll Call
$10,000 "Grown Up" level
$5,000 "Teenager" level
$2,500 "Kiddo" level
$1,000 "Toddler" level
The Hale Family
Jan and Mike MacDougal
$500 "Newborn" level
2024 Local Legend Dr. Hugh C. Falls |
2023 Local Legend Don Pierson |
2022 Local Legend Ed Wehmer |
2021 Local Legend Susan Garrett |
2020 Local Legend Dr. Eugene Hotchkiss |
2019 Local Legend Jack Schuler |
2018 Local Legend Marian Phelps Pawlick |
2017 Local Legend Ryne Sandberg |
2016 Local Legend Ellen Stirling |
2015 Local Legends Franklin and Mark McMahon |
2014 Local Legends Bill Kurtis and Donna La Pietra |
2013 Local Legend Richard Marx |
2012 Local Legend John H. Bryan |
2011 Local Legend Adrian Smith |
2010 Local Legend Captain Jim Lovell |