GiGi's Playhouse to Open in Oak Forest
GiGi's Playhouse, a business designed to help educate and enrich the lives of children and adults with Down Syndrome hopes to open in September 2013. Santa will stop in for a dinner and a visit Dec. 9.
When Nancy Gianni's daughter, GiGi, was born, doctors knew there was something different about her. An hour after her birth, doctors diagnosed GiGi with Down syndrome. While new challenges arose for Nancy, GiGi and the rest of the Gianni family, Nancy wasn't going to let her brood face them lying down. Driven by her new daughter's struggles and wanting to form a place where parents, children and families touched by Down syndrome could gather, learn and grow, Nancy started GiGi's Playhouse, an awareness center in Hoffman Estates. That was nine years ago. Now GiGi's Playhouse has expended to 14 locations across the globe—including one coming to Oak Forest. Driving the creation and development of the Oak Forest location is Diane Husar. Husar…
Tired of the B.S.
9:19 am on Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Jeff, Where does it say that the mayor has the authority to use city property as he sees fit? The mayor does not own this property, the city does, and to allow it to be used, free of charge, without the approval of the city council seems like it some kind of backroom deal was made between the mayor and the folks at Gigis. I wonder how potential developers will look at this arrangement when they … more ›