The National Shrine of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini is holding a fundraiser Wednesday evening at the Chicago History Museum, 1601 N. Clark St. The shrine, 2520 N. Lakeview Ave., is engaged in a yearlong celebration of the first U.S. saint to mark the centenary of her death. A nonprofit, it attempts to continue her work in Chicago.

Mother Cabrini, who later gave name to what became the Cabrini-Green housing projects, was born in Italy, but came to Chicago before the end of the 19th century and went on to found Assumption School and later Columbus Hospital.