March 22, 2007

Lung Group's Stair Climb Has a Leg Up on Other Charity Races

By Brennen Jensen

By Brennen Jensen

In the American Lung Association of Metropolitan Chicago's largest annual fund-raising event, people are asked to propel themselves a sum total of 1,030 feet.

Kind of a wimpy walkathon — not even a fifth of a mile. That is, until you consider that the distance is measured straight up, translating into 1,632 steps up 94 floors to the observation level of the John Hancock Center, one of the Windy City's

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