Chicago's Chemically Imbalanced Comedy has recruited some charity-minded poker players in their quest to secure some permanent performance space. CIC's executive producer Angie McMahon told the Bastion that "These fellas are going to be hosting a launch party on May 19 at Two-Nine in Naperville from 7:00 to 11:00 PM and have named CIC its charity of choice."

What are they going to do with the proceeds? "CIC is trying to get its own space, and we have been doing lots of research and decided we wanted to raise the funds independently of personal bank loans. I started to look at non-traditional fund raising ideas. My sister saw a chicagopokerlive.com poster, and had been involved in a charitable poker event at her school. I started to look into it and it was all legit. Charitable poker consultants like Bert have actually been around for some time, they're just almost completely unknown to the theater community. So in my effort to give back, and also show how cool I am for beating all the kids to the punch, I thought I would let folks know. These guys are really great, and they are trying to find other ways to help out CIC too."

Pop into the launch party for open bar, appetizers, door prizes, and raffle items, including tickets to Late Night Catechism, Gorilla Tango Theater, ImprovOlympic, Hell in a Handbag, Thunder and Lightning, and more.