October 22, 2009 - For Immediate Release
Contact: Perry Drake
Media Relations
Anne Dillon
Director, Media Relations

(708) 216-8232

 
LOYOLA'S MEDICAL SCHOOL TO HOST BATTLE OF THE BEANS 
Chili cook-off benefits minority medical student organization 
MAYWOOD, Ill. -- Summer’s past and outside it has turned gloomy, cold and rainy -- perfect weather for a chili cook off.

Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine will let students, faculty and staff to demonstrate their culinary prowess during the 5th Annual Chili Cook Off.

The cooking competition will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Monday, Oct. 26,in the atrium of Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, located on the campus of Loyola University Health System, 2160 S. First Ave., Maywood

Participants will be able to sample a variety of chili dishes along with beverages and dessert. Prizes will be awarded for best taste and for best presentation. The cost is $5. Proceeds will benefit the Student National Medical Association, the nation’s oldest and largest independent, student-run organization focused on the needs and concerns of medical students of color.


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Based in the western suburbs of Chicago, Loyola University Health System is a quaternary care system with a 61-acre main medical center campus, the 36-acre Gottlieb Memorial Hospital campus and 28 primary and specialty care facilities in Cook, Will and DuPage counties. The medical center campus is conveniently located in Maywood, 13 miles west of the Chicago Loop and 8 miles east of Oak Brook, Ill. The heart of the medical center campus, Loyola University Hospital, is a 569-licensed-bed facility. It houses a Level 1 Trauma Center, a Burn Center and the Ronald McDonald� Childrens Hospital of Loyola University Medical Center. Also on campus are the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center, Loyola Outpatient Center, Center for Heart & Vascular Medicine and Loyola Oral Health Center as well as the LUC Stritch School of Medicine, the LUC Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing and the Loyola Center for Fitness. Loyola's Gottlieb Memorial Hospital campus in Melrose Park includes the 264-bed community hospital, the Gottlieb Center for Fitness and the Marjorie G. Weinberg Cancer Care Center.
 
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