{"id":2418,"date":"2026-04-07T18:41:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T23:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/?p=2418"},"modified":"2026-04-07T19:24:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T00:24:24","slug":"2026-illinois-walks-to-end-alzheimers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/2026\/04\/07\/2026-illinois-walks-to-end-alzheimers\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Illinois Walks to End Alzheimer&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/act.alz.org\/site\/PageServer?pagename=walk_chapter&amp;scid=1740\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Illinois Chapter<\/strong><\/a> of the <em>Alzheimer\u2019s Association<\/em> has already scheduled over 20 <em>Walks to End Alzheimer\u2019s<\/em> for the mid-September to early October 2026 timeframe. Check out their list and start informing your members to save the date for this year. There are also links to the Facebook pages for their local groups, as well as a short Fundraising Tools &amp; Tips video. Those of you in the know can go straight to the link for your local walk and register your team or yourself or make a donation for your team or area.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, the <a href=\"https:\/\/act.alz.org\/site\/TR?company_id=116140&amp;pg=national_company&amp;pw_id=15048\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>NARFE Silver National Team<\/strong><\/a> also has a page on the ALZ website. Our very own <a href=\"https:\/\/act.alz.org\/site\/TR\/Walk2026\/IL-Illinois?pg=team&amp;team_id=1033042&amp;fr_id=19603\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Marion Payne Chapter<\/strong><\/a> 1309 is currently number 4 on the NARFE Top Ten Teams list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Alzheimer&#8217;s Association has posted multiple walks for the fall of 2026 on the Illinois Chapter web page. Chapters and members can start planning for those dates now. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-2418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/04\/photo-Walk-to-End-Alzheimers-banner-1.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2420,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418\/revisions\/2420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2418"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=2418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}