Past Events

While Thanksgiving is a once-a-year event, our Board and Committee work year-round to plan, fund-raise, coordinate and get everything ready for a smooth event. . After successfully navigating the 2020 pandemic, and the 2021 inflation, 2022 threw a new wrench into the system: supply chain shortages.  Oh, and Avian Bid Flu… both of which combined […]

While Thanksgiving is a once-a-year event, our Board and Committee work year-round to plan, fund-raise, coordinate and get everything ready for a smooth event. With 2,000 families fed in 2019, we decided that 2020 families for 2020 had a great ring to it. When the Pandemic began in early 2020, we truly worried that donations […]

Join us as we Deliver Thanksgiving to local area families-in-need!!!2020 will look different, just like it does with virtually every 2020 event. The need is even GREATER this year with Covid than it has ever been, so we’re gonna keep smiling, and keep delivering meals for Thanksgiving, however that has to look. This year, in […]

Virtual Fundraiser and Race, at your own level, and at your own pace. The pandemic has changed absolutely everything, and we all know that the NEED is greater this year than ever before. Imagine for a moment, what it would be like to deliver a complete Thanksgiving Day meal to a family who would otherwise [...]

Holy Cow!!! Remember last year, when Robert Swiderski ran 204 miles to raise awareness and funds for Basket Brigade?? Well, now he’s looking to run 10 Marathons in 10 Days!!! You can run WITH him for a full marathon, or just a mile, or a block. You can see all of his starting points on […]

Simply present your flyer at the participating restaurants on October 13, 2020 between 5pm and 8pm. See Participating Locations below Streamwood Flyer Streamwood (Spanish Flyer) Rolling Meadows FlyerRolling Meadows (Spanish Flyer) Elgin FlyerElgin (Spanish Flyer)  

Our 4th Annual Basket Brigade Benefit Show was a GREAT success again this year, helping to raise over $2500 to help us feed families-in-need this Thanksgiving. Special Thanks to our Perfomers, Chasing Alice, Medicine Hat Band, and The Waiting Room for donating their time and TALENT to make our Benefit Show a success! We couldn’t […]

Yes, there WILL BE a Basket Brigade this year, the need is greater than ever! It will, of course, look different, and may be changing right up until delivery day. This year, assuming we are in Illinois Phase 4, we cannot have more than 50 people safely gathered in one location, so we are looking […]

Join us for another AMAZING year of giving back!!! Saturday, November 23rd – 9am This year our goal is to deliver 2000 complete Thanksgiving dinners to local area families in need!!! That’s 10,000 people!!!!! We need “all hands on deck” for this one!!! Did we mention, 10,000 people!!!! Let’s do this!!!!! Assembly Day will be […]

The most magical place on earth!!! But more importantly than the trip, is the mission.  Join us to help Engaging Speakers support the Basket Brigade of Suburban Chicago in their mission to deliver complete Thanksgiving Dinners to local area families-in-need. The Walt Disney Corporation has graciously donated these tickets to the Basket Brigade to use […]

The most magical place on earth!!! But more importantly than the trip, is the mission.  Join us to help Cicis Pizza in Streamwood support the Basket Brigade of Suburban Chicago in their mission to deliver complete Thanksgiving Dinners to local area families-in-need. The Walt Disney Corporation has graciously donated these tickets to the Basket Brigade […]

Help us to deliver complete Thanksgiving dinners to 1500 local area families this year!!! Join us for our fourth annual Benefit Concert. We have two great bands lined up to ROCK THE HOUSE!! Chasing Alice and Medicine Hat Bands are here to help us raise money to feed 2000 families in 2019. And, for the […]

The most magical place on earth!!! Raffle is for (4) one day park hopper tickets to Disney World. Drawing to be held at our Benefit Show on September 14, 2019.  We will also stream is live on Facebook Live, so be sure to tune in, buy some raffle tickets, show our support and help us […]

“With great power comes great responsibility.” This is what Uncle Ben told Peter Parker (Spiderman), just before he (Ben) passed away. The truth is that this really applies to all of us in that we all have some great power, talent, gift or resource. And I would be remiss if I didn’t first look into […]

Hello, my name is Robert Swiderski. Ten years ago, in 2009, during this time of the year, my life changed forever. The lesson I learned is that people really do care, if they only have the opportunity to express themselves in a meaningful way, for a person or cause they really believe in. I was […]

Help us deliver 2000 Thanksgiving Dinners to local families-in-need Come join us for a super-fun FUNdraiser!!!! There are 3 ways that you can help out…. 1 – Sponsor a Child or Student – download a pledge form (link below) each pledge of at least $10, your child or student can break up to 3 boards!!! […]

The Hanover Park Police Department will be hosting our 22nd Annual COPS Day Picnic on Friday, August 10, 2018 from 5-8p.m. followed by a movie-in-the-park featuring Disney’s “Coco” at dusk. The picnic will be held at Community Park, 1919 Walnut Avenue. The park is located on the southwest corner of Church Street and Walnut Avenue. […]

Enjoy a special evening at Bartlett Park with the Village of Bartlett, Bartlett Park District and Bartlett Fire Protection District. This award winning community event, in its 25th year in Bartlett, is scheduled to include: free food, giveaways, local business displays, a watermelon eating contest, face painting, a balloon twister, an inflatable slide, a dunk […]

The Basket Brigade Committee gives back as we volunteer at Bernie’s Book Bank. Bernie’s Book Bank sources, processes and distributes quality new and gently used children’s books to significantly increase book ownership among at-risk infants, toddlers and school-age children throughout Chicagoland. Bernie’s Book Bank is the leading provider of quality books to at-risk children in […]

Two World Class Speakers in One Amazing Day Discover Your Focus: • How to move forward with absolute certainty on a successful outcome • Learn how to focus on a single task to overcome anything • Gain control over your life circumstances through renewed focus • Break through your limiting beliefs of “I can’t” and […]