STREETERVILLE — For some of the sick kids at Lurie Children's Hospital, Monday is the best day of the week — thanks to Tracey Ellert.
The children's entertainer has hosted "Body Parts," a game similar to bingo, for the last 15 years. Through the hospital's intrahospital TV network, Skylight TV, kids not feeling up to the task of joining the studio audience on the hospital's 12th floor can play along from their rooms.
On today's DNAinfo Radio Extra, Kyla Gardner explains how Ellert got her start and why she works at the hospital each week:
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