July 2022

Summertime CHI: Back to School Event – 8/12/22

July 26, 2022 A Reach Beyond the Surface

For more information: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/summertime-chi-back-to-school-event-tickets-381293508147?aff=erelexpmlt

FY 2022-23 Grocery Tax Suspension from July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2023

July 22, 2022 A Reach Beyond the Surface

Hopefully, the grocery tax suspension will help those who need it. Read more about it here.

Illinois Region – Get Help

July 14, 2022 A Reach Beyond the Surface

Are you in need of help? Illinois American Red Cross offers referrals and resources to people who are in help. Click the link below. https://www.redcross.org/local/illinois/get-help/additional-help-resources.html

FY 2022-24 State Sales Tax Holiday August 5, 2022, through August 14, 2022

July 12, 2022 A Reach Beyond the Surface

Read more about the State Sales Tax Holiday in AugustCLICK HERE

About our Founder

Clarissa Harlowe Barton was a pioneering nurse who founded the American Red Cross. She worked as a hospital nurse in the American Civil War, and as a teacher and patent clerk. Barton is noteworthy for doing humanitarian work at a time when relatively few women worked outside the home. She had a relationship with John J. Elwell, but never married. Clara Barton was born on December 25, 1821 in North Oxford, Massachusetts. Her full name was Clarissa Harlowe Barton. Barton's father was Captain Stephen Barton, a member of the local militia and a selectman. Barton's mother was Sarah Stone Barton. When she was three years old, Clara Barton was sent to school with her brother Stephen, where she excelled in reading and spelling. At school, she became close friends with Nancy Fitts; she is the only known friend Clara Barton had as a child due to her extreme timidity. When she was ten years old, she assigned herself the task of nursing her brother David back to health after he fell from the roof of a barn and received a severe injury. She learned how to distribute the prescribed medication to her brother, as well as how to place leeches on his…