Chiditarod VII (2012)
Channel: Steven Lane
Date: 2012-03-14

The Chiditarod is Chicago's very own most important shopping cart race in the universe. The Iditarod is the famous long-distance race in which yelping dogs tow a sled across Alaska. Chiditarod is pretty much the same thing, except that instead of dogs, it's people; instead of sleds, it's shopping carts; and instead of Alaska, it's Chicago. Chiditarod is a one-of-a-kind event dedicated to self-expression, reclaiming our city for freaks of all varieties, food-drive for our city's disadvantaged, and creating copious amounts of epic. 

Chiditarod's 2012 total amount of food donations for the Greater Chicago Food Depository is a whopping 27,378 pounds.  That's 8,000 more lbs than last year, and a new Chiditarod record!

Growing Home was the beneficiary of all monetary donations, equaling $18,934.92.  An anonymous donor has agreed to match all new donations, giving Growing Home a grand total of $37,869.84. That's more than double 2011's monetary donations!

http://www.chiditarod.org