Caring Caps: Area walk/run helps children's hospital

There was something for everyone. An ice-cream cone, a five-kilometer race, a handwritten note, a beautiful day in the park. They were all there, and for a good cause. A practically perfect Sunday in Hopkins Park in DeKalb more than 800 people come to support Caps 4 Sam, the third annual event to raise money for Chicago's Children's Memorial Hospital. Sam Ihm, who is now 13, had surgery on a brain tumor more than three years ago on Jan. 18, 2005. The caps were one way that Sam connected to those around him in a difficult time. “He was going to have to wear a cap. Pretty soon, all his friends did the same,” said Mary Overbey, Sam's grandmother. “He even gave one to his doctor.” On the day of his surgery, the entirety of St. Mary School in De