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Alumni Club of Chicago (KACC)

The Kellogg Alumni Club of Chicago had a busy summer hosting social and educational events that kept our alums throughout the city and suburbs active and in touch. KACC's summer reading included several author and book club events including a popular evening with Ted Fishman, author of China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World. The downtown group also hosted two book club get-togethers to discuss Winning by Jack Welch and Freakonomics by Levitt and Dubner. The north/northwest group's book club discussed Disney War by James B. Stewart.

This year marked the second annual Private Equity, Entrepreneurship and Investment Banking event co-hosted by KACC and University of Chicago GSB. The evening featured a panel of speakers from these industries sharing their perspectives for Kellogg and GSB students and alums.

KACC music lovers took advantage of the warm, dry weather this summer to attend a concert in Millennium Park of the Grant Park Orchestra performing A Midsummer Night's Dream and joined the party animals (and fish) for "Jazzin' at the Shedd," a jazz concert on the terrace at the John G. Shedd aquarium. Alums also met for a night under the stars to hear the Gypsy Kings at Ravinia and several alumni families attended Carmen for Kids, also at Ravinia.

Our more sports-minded alums tested their skills at the annual summer golf outing sponsored by the KACC north/northwest and west groups. The golfers made a full day of it with an 18-hole scramble, lunch and dinner at Seven Bridges Golf Club. Several alumni families came out to the old ballpark to watch the Schaumburg Flyers take on the Kansas City T-Bones. KACC families met for a pre-game picnic and the kids gathered on the field before the game to meet the players and get autographs.

On Nov. 9, the KACC hosted a discussion of the book The Power of Positive Networking – How to Leap Forward in Your Work and Life featuring speaker, expert and author Darcy Rezac, with his co-authors Gayle Hallgren-Rezac and Judy Thomson. Rezac shared his trademarked seven-step process to help everyone avoid the "toads" and make the right connections in business and life.