Real estate professionals who gathered in Chicago recently to play a Monopoly-like board game left behind a lot more than play money to support cancer research.
More than 500 people attended the Harold E. Eisenberg Foundation’s Eisenopoly game night on Feb. 3, according to the foundation. The 12th annual event, held in the Wintrust Grand Banking Hall in Chicago’s Loop business district, raised almost $250,000.
Many of the event’s sponsors were big names in the real estate industry, including brokerages JLL and Cushman & Wakefield and Chicago developers such as Draper and Kramer, Farpoint Development and Golub & Co.
Blackstone’s LivCor multifamily investment company had several people attend including Dan Kim, Anastasia Gillen, Al Chang and John Nora. "Monopoly is always a good idea," according to a LivCor LinkedIn post, adding that it's even better when supporting a cause such as the Harold E. Eisenberg Foundation.
The foundation, based in Northfield, Illinois, north of Chicago, raises money for gastrointestinal cancer research and puts on real estate education and training programs in the Chicago area. Its namesake, known to friends and real estate industry colleagues as Hal Eisenberg, died of liver and pancreatic cancers in 1999.
CoStar Group was a sponsor of the Eisenopoly event.