Anthony Rizzo, who is a lymphoma survivor himself, pulled the paper covering a mural and his Cubs jersey signed by patients on the walls of Lurie’s 18th-floor waiting room named in his honor.
Anthony RIzzo said,
“I remember sitting with my mom saying we were going to do this 10 years ago. And it’s just a little step toward our mission,” he said.
“To be able to give back, to do this type of work, is so much bigger than a World Series and doing anything on a baseball field just because my family’s been through it, there’s so many families going through it,” Rizzo said. “This is as real as it gets in life.”