Going to the Gala? What you need to know >

Gala event tickets are sold out!!

But you can still participate!

Virtual tickets are available if you would like to bid in the silent auction, purchase raffle tickets or support this year’s Fund-A-Cause. Tito’s Handmade Vodka and The Rush Family will be matching up to $15,000 in donations to this year’s Fund-A-Cause.

Click here to purchase your virtual ticket/s.

Virtual and Event Ticket Holders can begin bidding by logging into their ReadySetAuction account pages here.

The auction will close at 9:15 p.m. CST on Friday, November 1, 2024.

Premium Raffle Prize

This year’s premium raffle prize is a two-night stay at the 21c Museum Hotel in Chicago, with complimentary valet parking and a $75 gift card for Rosebud’s Restaurants. Total raffle prize valued at $1100!

Experience the art of travel right here at home. 21c Museum Hotel Chicago is the intersection of comfort, culture and curation. A hotel where inspiration is around every corner- dine, entertain, and recharge while surrounded by world class art.

Raffle tickets are $25 per chance or $100 for 5 chances to win.

Raffle tickets purchased in advance of the event will be completed with your information and entered into the raffle drawing by a Heartland Staff Member.

NOTE: Thank you to all of our auction donors. Due to the overwhelming support Heartland received this year we simply could not include everything in our auction!! If you do not see your donation included in the auction, please know that Heartland is planning to use it at one of our upcoming events and we are very grateful to you for supporting us!

The Event Program

Live Auction

We are bringing back the live auction this year! Highlights include diamond earrings from Burdeen’s Jewelry, a complimentary 3-night stay for up to 6 guests at a Palm Springs, California, vacation home created by West Elm and a one-of-a-kind, priceless adventure, catching and releasing American alligators in Cocoa Beach, Florida, with Frank “Alligator” Robb.

Fund-A-Cause

TIto’s Handmade Vodka and Jerry & Sharon Rush will match up to $15,000!

Ellis Clark

Ellis Clark has been a longtime fixture of the Chicago music community working nationally as a performing musician with his band Big Hair Big Trouble, Ellis Clark & The Big Parade, The Social Act and Epicycle. Ellis has shared the bill with Nine Inch Nails, The Smashing Pumpkins, Blondie, Dave Davies (The Kinks), Glenn Tilbrook (Squeeze), UB40, The Neville Brothers, and the late SNL star Chris Farley to name a few. READ MORE

Rob Hughes

Rob Hughes joined the ABC 7 Eyewitness News team as a weekend evening anchor and a weekday reporter in August 2023. Hughes joins ABC 7 from Atlanta News First, the CBS station in Atlanta where he first served as weekend morning anchor/reporter and was quickly promoted to weekday morning anchor/reporter. He covered numerous major stories including Georgia’s transition from red state to swing state, an Atlanta Braves World Series, and the impact of tropical storm Hurricane Zeta, for which the news team won an Emmy® Award for Best Mor ning Newscast. READ MORE

PLANNING COMMITTEE

Liz Goldberg
Gala Chair

Jennifer Schlueter
Executive Director

Committee Members
Shayna Carlson
Kelly Chabebe
Ellen Detroy
Edie Eiseman
Shawn Fitzgerald
Mimi Goodwin
Danielle Gordon
Liza Holubtsova
Rachel Mullany
Shannon Patton
Stephanie Peters
Courtney Robinson
Maribeth Santiago
Linda Schroeder
Vicky Ross
Alyssa Vinci