12-12-12 Concert to Benefit Hurricane Sandy Victims

Some of the biggest names in music will play at a benefit concert on Wednesday. All proceeds will go to Hurricane Sandy victims, via the Robin Hood Foundation. Find out how to help and where you can watch or listen in the Chicago area.

Huge names in music are lending their talents to Hurricane Sandy relief efforts at the “12-12-12” concert Wednesday. Every penny sold from ticket sales will go directly to Sandy victims through the Robin Hood Relief Fund, which provides material, money and aid to local organizations that are serving families and individuals in the regions hardest hit by the storm, including more than 200 Patch towns in New Jersey, Connecticut and Long Island. The all-star lineup includes Bon Jovi, Eric Clapton, Dave Grohl, Billy Joel, Alicia Keys, Chris Martin, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, Eddie Vedder, Roger Waters, Kanye West, The Who and Paul McCartney, with other artists to be announced. According to the 12-12-12 concert’s website, starting …

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Popular on Patch: Rallying Local Support, Retired Officer to Drive Supplies to Sandy Victims

La Grange Highlands’ Jack Kielczynski has less than a week to fill his truck in order to reach Staten Island by Thanksgiving, and the community is answering his call.

Rallying Local Support, Retired Officer to Drive Supplies to Sandy Victims

La Grange Highlands’ Jack Kielczynski has less than a week to fill his truck in order to reach Staten Island by Thanksgiving, and the community is answering his call.

Staten Island, one of the areas hardest-hit by the devastating and lingering effects of Hurricane Sandy, is more than 700 miles from La Grange—but Jack Kielczynski is hoping to bridge that distance with the help of a truckful of relief supplies. Kielczynski, a Navy veteran, retired police officer and 26-year La Grange Highlands resident, plans to fill a rented 16-foot Penske truck with the sort of stuff Sandy’s victims desperately need and personally deliver it to New York. He’ll leave on Monday in order to reach Staten Island by Thanksgiving, and fly home later. “I just couldn’t imagine what it would be like to have my entire life just washed away in 20 minutes,” Kielczynski said. “Every time I watched the news it got a little worse… I …

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Patch and AOL Send Hurricane Sandy Relief Trucks to Long Island, N.J.

Employees help out, and you can too.

It has been said that it's far better to have a neighbor who's near than a brother who's far away, but in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, Americans across the nation have proven to be the best neighbors and the strongest of families. This past weekend, AOL and Patch employees took an opportunity to pitch in, packing two tractor trailers worth of food, water and supplies in Dulles, Va., and Baltimore. The donations are headed to Hurricane Sandy-ravaged areas in New Jersey and Long Island. Want to join the relief efforts? Donate to the Red Cross through AOL's Network for Good page.  "When a catastrophe of this size hits, we all feel it, both the hundreds of us who live in the impacted towns, and our colleagues who are watching and wishing they …

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Hurricane Sandy Will Keep Area Cold This Week

Northern Illinois' weather will be affected by Hurricane Sandy as it hits the East Coast, keeping the cold Canadian air from leaving the Midwest, says the National Weather Service.

Hurricane Sandy is expected to slam into the East Coast late Monday or early Tuesday, and the storm could batter a region that's home to 50 million people with 4-to-11-foot waves, 75-mph winds, a foot of rain and even snow in some states. Northern Illinois will be affected by Sandy, too, says the National Weather Service. The cooler air over the Chicago area, courtesy of a large Canadian high pressure system, will likely stay through the middle of next week, its escape blocked by Sandy. "As Sandy moves north to our latitude and slows, it will halt the west-to-east progress of high and low pressures across the Midwest and western Great Lakes," reports the National Weather Service. "This 'blocking' will maintain the high pressure and dry air…

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