Lincoln-Way East student organizes donation drive for Advocate Children’s Hospital

When Mason Meskimen was just 4, the Lincoln-Way East High School student was hospitalized and needed a blood transfusion. Keeping a young child calm and still during the hours-long procedure seemed nearly impossible, his mother, Heather Meskimen, recalled. Thankfully, she said the Child Life department at Advocate Children’s Hospital — which was called Hope Children’s […]