The ECCI Centennial Celebration NFP, an Internal Revenue Service (IRS)-designated 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, has selected the month of May to solicit tax-deductible gifts to fund a Civic Hall of Fame Public Memorial. 

In August of 2021, the NFP purchased more than $15K in TouchPros hardware and software for development of a Civic HOF public memorial, which will feature a TouchWall interactive, touch-screen TV monitor (65 inches) on which users can view biographies, photographs and video clips of each of the inductees.

A Civic HOF website will go live later this year and the TouchWall is expected to be installed at a temporary site by year's end.

Created in honor of ECCI's 100th Anniversary in 2018, the ECCI Centennial Celebration NFP's one-of-a-kind $250,000 Capital Campaign has raised some $300K for the Ralph P. Pechanio Student Internship Endowment Fund at Elmhurst University versus a goal of $150K, exceeded the Second Century Fund's $50K goal and collected more than $25K towards the $50K Civic HOF goal since 2016.

Since its creation in 1992 as part of the Opening Ceremonies at Elmfest, the Civic HOF has inducted 32 businesspeople, community volunteers and elected officials.  Since Elmfest's end in 2009, inductees have been honored at ECCI's Annual Awards Gala in all but one of those years.