The annual Bridges Dance Marathon took place on Jan. 18, from 4-8 p.m. at New Trier High School’s Northfield Campus gym. The event was organized by the Bridges Dance Board, which raises money for the Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago every year. This year, the group exceeded its goal of raising $100,000 and collected $220,080.43 in total. “This wouldn’t have happened without everyone’s hard work,” junior Anna Virgili, executive board member on the Bridges dance board, said. “The donor would match our final total up to 100,000, so I think this really pushed people to raise as much money as possible. Every donation would have double the effect and this made everyone work 10x harder.” Lurie Children’s Hospital benefits from the Miracle Network Dance Marathon—which the Bridges Teen Leadership Board is a part of—a program of Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals (CMN Hospitals). CMN Hospitals raises money for 170 children’s hospitals to support 10 million child patients each year acros...