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Bears president’s family foundation makes $1 million donation to Lurie Children’s Hospital

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Gisela Gama holds her son, Ethan Lopez, 6, as he rings a bell to celebrate his last chemotherapy session at Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital.

Bears president Kevin Warren and his wife, Greta Warren, have donated $1 million to Lurie Children’s Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders through their family foundation in honor of his late sister who died in 2014 from brain cancer.

When his sister was getting chemotherapy, she would tell her family about “latchkey kids in Arizona who were taking two or three buses to get to chemo to then get back on two and three buses to get home, and so she challenged us she said make the world easier for them,” Kevin Warren said during a press conference Friday at Ann & Robert H.